They have VERY bad timing. Both of them need reassuring right now, and neither is in an especially reassuring mood. And Cordelia is always a breath of fresh air, isn't she. I love her honesty and her guarded emotionally vulnerability. And Spike really isn't picking up the Xander-clues as well as he usually does, but then Xander has just changed the rules.

And I'm glad you enjoyed the quick diversion of one crisis into another. I was afraid people would think the Dareh thing disappeared with too little drama.