"I've heard good things about it," he agrees. He might not eat out a great deal by preference, but he does go out often enough for work-related reasons. Company dinners and charity banquets and conferences. He doesn't need any coaxing in this case, especially as it was his idea. "As I said, wherever you like." He is a man of his word, and even if she'd chosen a rundown hamburger place instead, he would have dutifully made his way there with her.

While she's changing--in her suspiciously quick manner which he doesn't remark on--he gets ready to go himself, and puts on a jacket, as black as his pants, never one for colorful clothing.

"You look nice." He wonders sometimes, if it's easier for those who had parents to parent. Sometimes he still feels out of his depth, so unlike the warm, emotional parents he sometimes sees at school events, or any time when he's out in public.