Lucy has started to learn when to argue and when to comfort. Sometimes he really does act like a dick, and a good scolding is in order, since she refuses to be pushed around by him. And sometimes it's just a self-preservation method, lashing out to keep her at arm's length, which she refuses to let him do.

"Neither was I," she answers. Of course, this means that she's admitting to the things he's seen of her life, too. It's a bit freeing, to have him know. She was never particularly secret about the abusiveness of her husband, but the details are more painful. "It was nice, though," she adds. "The sex, too." Like, that was some really good sex. They should try that more often.