The water seems to rise toward his hands in a way that just isn't quite natural, which might have something to do with why she's smiling so artlessly at him like I would never, in response to that question. She's even got her hands clasped behind her back, though the impersonation of ingenuous harmlessness takes on a slightly different cast performed by a nymph hip-deep in water.

"That would be rude." Like tossing a corpse in.