"No, good lady, after YOU."<br/><br/>And he had noted her little comment about his seeming eagerness - maybe he was, maybe he wasn't.  He'd never tell her that.  Guessing that she'd either not heard him at the captain's table or had forgotten about it, he repeated the first part of the line he'd used there.<br/><br/>"So, you told me earlier that you're an only daughter - and I must say, that makes you very lucky in your family."<br/><br/>The line was simple - he'd deliver the first part, to which the girl would ask some variation as to why that was, and he'd completed it.  It had never failed before, and unless the girl was a total ice bitch, it always drew a laugh.