"Who is fishing for compliments now?" he chuckles. He has the urge to touch her face, her hair, so he pulls his hand back, busying it with taking something from whatever tray is passing by.

But the last time they drank together comes to mind, and how hurt she was that he was too hard on her, so he finds himself adding, "If you weren't pretty and charming, your strategy of manipulating older men would have never worked."