Northstar Vale you said those things and i wanted to believe you

secretly -- hell, maybe not so secretly -- he's relieved queenie doesn't go all sappy on him about it, even though he'd not expected her to. sometimes you never know -- it's not as if he doesn't give in to fits of sentimentality here and there. (okay, with more frequency than he'd ever own up to).

"yeah, yeah," delight grouses, only to be bowled over by his newly appointed second in command. jeez! he's sick and isn't she the one always going on about body guards and looking after him given his delicate physique? if queenie expects him to playfully chase her, she'd got the wrong morwinyon: he stays on the ground, giving her an incredibly pathetic and borderline malicious look as he dramatically deadpans "you've gone and killed me."