Robert puffed up with pride. Well, he was rather awesome when she put it that way, wasn't he? This was so highly gratifiying.
However, he assumed a properly mournful expression. "Ah, yes, that is so terribly sad. To have loved so deeply and lost so much!" He bit his knuckle in a fit of histronic grief. "It is almost too much! I assume Daphne never recovered from such a blow to her happiness?"