[“It’s incredible,” he says, while she feels ridiculous as the hand-above-head gesture must look—up to a point.

[This is common???]

Ask away, [with a small nod,] please. [Approving. Seems they both have much to discover.]

Afterward… [The raised hand closes lightly, and she props it by her chin.] Truth be told, I was preoccupied. But they certainly didn’t get up again. [Delivered with a similar “that, inexplicably, happened” tone, with no particular weight. Perhaps that’s callous. She had—has—other priorities.]