To cement the fact of how extremely angry she was, Lois made her voice calm and said, “No, I’m not mad; I’m hurt.”
Twist! You bent the timeline around again!
Can’t you see what a precious person you are?
I do tend to stick a double meaning of ‘capricious’ to ‘precious’.
He ran his hand over her hair once more and smiled weakly. “One that keeps on giving.”

Michael