We're not. [He gestures, agitated.] She was just trying to show...closeness, I suppose, in a friendly way, but she's never shown it like that. I suppose it's because it's what's expected of us here. And then it's as if I'm being unreasonable to object!

[Which is twisting the events, a bit. It had been his flinch, not his objection, that had blown up in his face.]