[He glances at the description in the menu and nods in agreement.]
A fine choice!
[As if he knows what it tastes like... At her offer to help pay, he holds up one gloved hand in a gesture of polite refusal.]
I believe it's customary for the gentleman to pay when he invites a lady out to lunch.
[Although he's already depleted a good chunk of his first government stipend, he isn't concerned about running through it all. In the back of his mind, he wonders if he's genuinely being generous, or if he's only doing this because he wishes for her to perceive him as generous, but he brushes this objection back.]
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A fine choice!
[As if he knows what it tastes like... At her offer to help pay, he holds up one gloved hand in a gesture of polite refusal.]
I believe it's customary for the gentleman to pay when he invites a lady out to lunch.
[Although he's already depleted a good chunk of his first government stipend, he isn't concerned about running through it all. In the back of his mind, he wonders if he's genuinely being generous, or if he's only doing this because he wishes for her to perceive him as generous, but he brushes this objection back.]