[If she is wide open to read, she will notice that he's both worried about her, worried she doesn't LIKE him or his glasses, and at the same time he's amusingly affronted that she fails to recognize the superior sparky engineering of the pince-nez.]
But, liebechen,They are by far more secure and durable than those terrible horn rims you so admire! There are no major moving parts. Suspension depends on a more or less whole nose, rather than on two whole ear pieces. There is no unbalanced torque on the framework, and the entire thing depends on simple gravity and friction... it's hard to damage these, love.
The horn-rims? One screw works loose and the entire pair of glasses becomes useless. A broken ear piece? One is helpless. And the frames are much more easily broken than these: gold over tempered Baronium, developed by some of Herr Wulfenbach's captured spark liege men.
[He's studying her. She seems so wan and... hopeless? So much less stable than usual. What has hurt her?]
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Date: 2011-09-08 06:44 pm (UTC)But, liebechen,They are by far more secure and durable than those terrible horn rims you so admire! There are no major moving parts. Suspension depends on a more or less whole nose, rather than on two whole ear pieces. There is no unbalanced torque on the framework, and the entire thing depends on simple gravity and friction... it's hard to damage these, love.
The horn-rims? One screw works loose and the entire pair of glasses becomes useless. A broken ear piece? One is helpless. And the frames are much more easily broken than these: gold over tempered Baronium, developed by some of Herr Wulfenbach's captured spark liege men.
[He's studying her. She seems so wan and... hopeless? So much less stable than usual. What has hurt her?]