[An "admirer of women"? You do remind me a lot of Ren....]

[Lightly cupping her mouth she tried not to laugh too much]

You two must be really good friends if you're able to kid each other like that. No one's tried to take you up on that offer, have they?

[I should have read the strikeout!]

.............. Oh!...

[Right. He'd said that before. They'd both managed to forget about their worries for a little while but she'd managed to bring it right back to his concerns.]

I'm sorry- I didn't mean to..... I should have known from what we were talking about earlier.