"By that logic, I would think you'd be back in gym class like a good little girl, learning how to kill a man with your thumbs, or boil water, or something like that. If 'all that' matters, as you say, then forgive the assumption, but you look like you've already given up," he focuses his gaze more intently on her. "But there's always a way around the system. You just have to figure out how it works first."

He isn't sure if he's trying to comfort her, intimidate her or just figure her out. Maybe its a bit of all three. If she's a tribute - and she is - it's like she says. She's supposed to eventually have little more concern about him past the best way break his neck or something equally horrible. If there's no way out of this, and so far things haven't looked promising, then he's supposed to view her the same. Tony has a hard time being told what he's supposed to do and feel about things though...