"Mmm, seducing sailors to their deaths," he teased; he really saw her very differently from how she saw herself. But he loved how he could make her blush and squirm just by telling her the silly descriptions that popped into his mind.
"Oh, didn't I mention? I'm disgustingly rich. I could cover you in diamonds," he told her, with a cheeky smile. It was amusing because of course he knew that she wasn't really like that, that she was always happier with more meaningful gestures than she ever would be with money.