At least she was agreeing with him now. He didn't have the patience to fight this battle any longer. The good thing about women from his own time was that they still felt that it was their job to listen to the man. Dating Brooke had shown Damon that that changed over the time between his life and hers. Lydia was more familiar to him for that reason.
When he heard her voice and saw her fumbling for a handkerchief, Damon wasn't sure what to do. He didn't know how to act around emotional women, even as a human. Now as a vampire, devoid of emotion entirely it was even harder to understand. A part of him knew that he should try to comfort his wife, but she had also asked him to excuse her. What was really the right thing to do. "Is there anything I can get you?" he asked her. That was good enough, wasn't it? At least there he was trying to show concern, but he was still giving her space.