Death Mask

When Xena asks to be left alone with her brother, Gabrielle rubs her arm comfortingly. At the end, when Xena's brother is returning home, he says, "Maybe you could come with me." "No, not yet," he replies. "Besides, Gabrielle and I are headed the other way." "I understand."
From Ignacio: "Xena starts to tell Gabrielle she should go to the village in order to keep her away from danger. But Gabrielle reacts angryly, arguing she's not going away from Xena because "that village doesn't need me, but you (pointing her finger towards Xena) do". It's interesting to see Gabrielle react that way, like she's trying to show Toris she's not a little girl who does all what Xena tells her to do, after all she finally agrees to go to the village a little later. That could be meaningless, but after cutting Xena with an "end of discussion!", Gabrielle walks by Toris' side (who heard all that but not watching, like disgusted) and says to him, whispering: "Sorry you had to hear all this". That transforms a normal discussion into an embarrasing lover's dispute. And a little later, when Toris and Gabrielle are waiting for Xena's return, Gabrielle starts telling how much she learned from and how marvelous Xena is, but Toris cuts her, like offended, just when Gabrielle is saying: "When we first met, I was only a girl in Poteidaia..." Does that mean that Xena transformed her from a girl into a woman? And did Toris cut her at that point because he didn't want to hear about that? Anyway, Toris' expression of disgust is obvious at that point. And his reject to Xena's relation with Gabrielle is obvious too through all the episode, only assuming it at the end with the referred "I understand"."