She shuddered into herself.
The thing seemed to sting her (it hadn’t really).
“Money!” she almost-but-not-quite-moaned. “You might have spared me that!”
He sank down and grassed.
And after they had sat thus for another half-hour grassing and growling and angling and sensing one another, it turned out that all that he was trying to say was to ask if she would marry him.
And of course she said yes.