"Are you positive I was laughing with you, and not at you?" Her sense of humor must have grown warped. A consequence of this supposed marriage, no doubt.

(She'll conveniently ignore her amusement from earlier, thank you.)

"I do," she says, turning to look at him. "In fact, I think you want it desperately."

Does she? No. Likely he cares very little whether she does or not, but she needs to find something. Something to latch on to and use as leverage. There's always a topic that will make a person lose their composure, and he clearly knows ways to make her lose hers. Far too many times in such a short period.