"Stop trying to one-up me," she answers with a smile, though it's a very weak one, and a bad joke. It's difficult to remain completely sincere over time, but given the fact she's close to tears over both their fates, it's not an unkind joke.

"I guess it's not so strange you didn't want to talk about her," she adds, sympathetically. It's a very long way from snarking about how unsurprising it was for him to be single. "What happened?"