This all felt very awkward. "Oh, it wasn't," Jack tried to protest but the damage had been done. He had worded things too poorly for Miss Farley was pulling her hand out of his. Now she was thanking him and he was still a little too dumbfounded to think of words to fix this. He did not want to lose her company.

But alas, there she was, fleeing inside.

Jack thunked his head against the nearest available surface, mentally bemoaning what an idiot he was.