Bella looks taken aback - that was far more tranquil than the kinds of reactions she's been anticipating since she decided to confess - and then exasperated.

"If you can prove it, I will," she says. "I don't waste time questioning irrefutable evidence when it's right in front of me."

And if he can't or is unwilling to, then teasing her with it is the most suitable punishment possible for her actions.