gratify
verb (used with object)
to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings.
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Then "Why Ted?" she said, almost as if she were talking to herself and then started to try and make him see that that didn't matter—a spectacle to which he remained gratifiedly blind.
From Young People's Pride A Novel by Stephen Vincent Benét