[Pa.thetic.]

Please, as if I'd want something so shriveled and gamey.

[She looks down at her hand, eyeing her manicure with disinterest.]

You're a valued client, which has, at least for now, successfully made you my problem. The only difference now is that I get a paycheck for the inconvenience.

[She looks up from her nails back up again to his face, then tracing down to the slope of his neck and adam's apple.]