[When he puts things that way...well, she has a hard time disagreeing. Her ego is sufficiently fed and that makes her nice and content. She even does something ridiculously dumb like kiss the tip of his nose. ]

I'll have you remind me of that the next time I have a bad makeup day.

[The moment of sweetness passes, and then she's left serious and back at the subject at hand.]

I need to tell the Doctor about it. But I can't figure out the right way to go about doing it, since I know he'll blame himself for it being there. How do you break terrible news to people you care about?