Why is she with him? Why has she brought him here? What if anything does she find pleasing about him? There is an answer: that he so transparently takes pleasure in her. When she walks into the room, his face, usually so dour, lights up. In the gaze that bathes her there is a quantum of male desire, but finally it is a gaze of admiration, of dazzlement, as though he cannot believe his luck. It pleases her to offer herself to his gaze.
