I'm perfectly aware.

[ he doesn't step away, and she can admire that.

—though it does mean she takes another step closer. ]

And yet you still think you would keep your nerve if I were to say we should go to that corner there, like you suggested earlier?

[ ...because she's really banking on him backing down at this point. or at least stumbling all over himself as he seems to often do when she catches him genuinely off guard. ]