Lee tries not to give an outburst from her comment about what was inside of her. He didn't want to do the whole dissection thing at all. He was wondering about the internal part but it was how she said it that made him cough.

"Indeed. Well, to go on with the inside part, I was thinking about that myself. That would require a more...physical manipulation that doesn't require anything sharp or a lot of pain." He may reconsider depending on her answer.