[Sigh. Now he'd offended her. Why was it that nerds could never quite get the bearings of a female creature? They always distressed them or drove them to drink straight from bottles.]

FINE. Fine. I do not doubt you, darling -- I'd never suggest such a thing as that. Straight from the bottle! No doubts! I'm merely stating the fact of the matter, which is that in this Shifted self, I can barely stand a drop of the stuff.