He gave Gerald the impression that he was terrified of her, and that he loved his terror.
He seemed to relish his own horror and hatred of her, turn it over and extract every flavour from it, in real panic.

Gerald thought him a strange fool, and yet piquant.
'But Pussum,' said another man, in a very small, quick Eton voice, 'you promised not to hurt him.' 'I haven't hurt him,' she answered.
'What will you drink ?' the young man asked.

He was dark, and smooth-skinned, and full of a stealthy vigour.
'I don't like porter, Maxim,' she replied.
'You must ask for champagne,' came the whispering, gentlemanly voice of the other.
Gerald suddenly realised that this was a hint to him.
'Shall we have champagne ?' he asked, laughing.
'Yes please, dwy,' she lisped childishly.
Gerald watched her eating the oysters.

She was delicate and finicking in her eating, her fingers were fine and seemed very sensitive in the tips, so she put her food apart with fine, small motions, she ate carefully, delicately.

It pleased him very much to see her, and it irritated Birkin.