If nothing else, she should be rewarded just for managing to find somewhere on his body not cut from marble -

"Ow," he complains, a great exaggeration, and at last the solemnity of his play breaks and he laughs, too, deep and not so dangerous as he can be. As he is, usually; as she has learned to be wary of in him. No, it is a cleaner, lighter moment, an echo of a man he should have been, and if he were of a mind to be self-reflective now

(he is not)

he might be glad to find himself capable.