"You have the flare for it," he agrees. It's not that she doesn't need and deserve tenderness sometimes, but that in the general day-to-day, she's just as stubborn and wilful as he is. If not more.

He is, however, extremely glad she didn't take his comparison the wrong way. In fact, she seems to like it enough to return the favour, which only makes him smile more.

"We sound like an unstoppable force and an immovable object."