He pulls his hands from her grasp, but only so he can loop his arm about her shoulder and keep her close. He can stretch this out until she’s sleepy - or distract her with sex and fall asleep after himself.

With one hand he flips through his sketchbook and all the stylised bodies with their elaborate clothes until he reaches a fresh page

“I have so many ideas,” he confesses as he starts sketching a brand new figure with too long a torso. “Something elegant but not too elaborate. Something that will match the formality of your beauty. Something embroidered.

One has to question his idea of ‘not elaborate’ as he begins the outfit by adding a long and ruffled cravat to the sketched figure. He’s going for a look he’s wanted to try anyway