"It's not improper or anything," he starts, holding up both hands defensively. "That's not why, I'm not into that kind of thing."

Bucky keeps his expression neutral, almost empty as Nurse Hart chokes on thin air. "Mr. Stark--"

"Anyway," Howard says, rolling right over her protest, "The point is that - look, remember the first test, when you touched the meter in the field and it nearly blew up? Contact enhanced the signal strength. Now there's something going on where it looks like his resonance isn't fading as fast as yours is, so I need to know if more contact changes the numbers, or if it's just any contact at all. Get it?"