He feints a doge but she gets him anyway.

"Indeed, I do. It was a forge, that stonedust was not something terribly unexpected."

The amount of it was, the fact that she did nothing to get rid of it, and the mad glee in her eyes when she was in the middle of working on one of her sculptures. How could he not fall in love with her? But the game is still on so instead of admitting any of it he huffs.

"It does nothing to disprove the reasonable part."