"Well, I didn't want to look too desperate," he replies, tone nonchalant for that he flashes her a playful look. This island is hardly lacking for beautiful women, but even when he had his pick of the girls during those few days of enforced amnesia, no one had stuck out in his mind quite so much as Natalia Romanova.

"You were a proper dame." He pauses, then amends with a wicked smile: "Still are."