You can't save something like this for a rainy or cloudy day?

[He wouldn't bother her if that were the case.]

Yeah, everything's fine. We're just missing a certain person to join us on deck.

[He also may have been checking on her to make sure she was okay. You know, he didn't want to assume anything then whoops, they need to make an emergency run to the doctor in the middle of the ocean.]

I'll meet you up there. [Assuming she actually does end on that chapter. Who knows, but he won't bother her again if she gets herself absorbed.]