How to deal with awkwardness

She didn't move an inch and so he took hold of one of her arms and lifted it up, he moved his arm from her forearm to her wrist. Then he delicately lifted her wrist so her palm was facing upwards, he then placed the coins into her palm with his free hand gently, and pushed her fingers gently over the coins and into a fist then let go of her wrist carefully.

She let her hand drop to her side in a stupor, her brain was busy processing what it was he had just done but when she'd finally realised she still couldn't quite understand nor believe that that was what had really happened. She proceeded to move her hand forward slightly so that it was in front of her torso, and then unclenched her fist, she then opened her hand slightly and confirmed that she had just been passed some spare change as though it was a big deal.