If she's inclined sounds like a compliment and an insult all at once, but she'll take it. Honestly, it could be so much worse, so best to simply take the win where she can. "Perhaps it wasn't an outright lie so much as hiding the truth," she clarifies, because the whole of her mission had been a lie in order to get Steve's blood and Howard should have known better than to lie to her about that.

"He lied to me to fix his mistakes," she says, grave and serious. "I hope you can tell me that the Howard who became a father was better than that man?"