"You do like plants more than most people," Lambert says without missing a beat. "Please don't bring up the idea of you with Foster ever again." Friends don't traumatize friends with hypothetical hookups, Strange!

"They can all use magic, and you like magic. Is that all it takes to get you interested in a man?" Oh, Strange had been talking about personality, but that sounds plausible enough and Lambert's smirking now, teeth sharp. "If it's that easy, then wouldn't Norrell be the likeliest candidate in England? Maybe you ran off because he rejected your love and you were in Venice nursing a broken heart. With drugs."

That sounds totally plausible, right? But the dramatic tone Lambert recites it in just makes it so clearly hamming it up it's impossible to take seriously, and he's obviously fighting down a laugh the whole time.