She gives him a wry grin. "We'll probably need some brandy to go with that. Come on, I just opened a bottle." While she's relieved that he's still calling her by his nickname for her, she can also sense his unhappiness from finding out she's been keeping secrets from him.

Huh. They've been married for a while now, that's true, but she's not sure she'd ever been this attuned to his feelings? It's almost... weird. Like flashes of things and colors in the sky weird.

"Who have you been talking to? Traded with shady types lately?" She realizes a second too late that she's given away the other secret she's been keeping from him — that she knows what his part-time job is.