"You didn't lose anything much. Like, literally," she says as if to comfort him, re-arranging her cards without making much sense of them. Dear lord what is she saying? Why is the saying? She needs to be stopped.

Encouraged by the alcohol, Pepper's unedited, instant reaction is a cross between a scoff of playful dismay and a snort of laughter, goggling at him incredulously. "Excuse--" Oh, wait. That's... yeah, totally not what he meant at all. "Never mind," she goes on a bit apologetically, more laughter burbling at the back of her throat as she discards a two of diamonds and snatches up the nine of hearts Tony abandoned in the discard pile previously.