See, all these back-handed compliments are giving me mixed signals.

[But he's not going to dwell on the "pretty handsome" part at all, no. Besides, a relationship? Romance?]

[....He doesn't deserve anything like that. Not him. Anyone but him.]

Eh. It takes a long while for people to rub off on me. You still have a ways to go, Miss Weiss.

[He says, at dinner with her.....]