Maddox smiled. "I'm older. I realize that you have a history, a past, and that includes the past with a man. And anyway, Molly, it's not like you two divorced. No, he was taken from you and you were widowed. There's a difference there alone," he pointed out easily. "And I too have been out of the dating scene so perhaps I'm not up to par with how someone is suppose to act. I just act how I feel." He shrugged. He took her compliment, but it wasn't something that he'd allow to go to his head. He had a big enough ego as it was.