Tony was prepared to be 'not happy' on Pepper's behalf, but his aghast raised lip quickly melted into a shrug of leery acceptance. That probably wasn't going to play out great for either of them later, but at least Tony could claim ignorance and it would keep her out of trouble. She wouldn't even go hungry.
"The suit is in the garage," he said eventually, hand back up in font of him again to illustrate the chestplate and its effects on his survivability. "I get that, we get back in control, everyone's sipping champagne again in twenty minutes."