[She wants to pretend like she leans into it subtly just to improve their cover, or that she is cold, because the snow really is coming down fairly hard and the temperature's definitely dropping, but she knows she's lying to herself.

She also knows he has every right to be angry with her, and that she doesn't deserve any favors for what happened, so there's an odd sort of acceptance that this isn't really genuine, and that it will come to an end sooner rather than later.]

I'd say "we dispensed with one that was of no use and created another that is", but I'm not entirely certain part of that's true.