(after kissing Hope by surprise) "I’m so sorry, I shouldn’t have done that! I’m sure you’ve had your share of people forcing themselves on you and invading your personal space. I had no right to do that."

(reassuring) “There would earnestly be something wrong with me if I would be willing to let the finest dame I have ever had the pleasure of meeting slip through my fingers all because of something so trivial.”

(trying to get back on track with being intimate/implicate) “Also, I don’t mean to be lascivious, but were we not-”