[It seems that his intuition might be right on the money this time. Not bad for someone who is socially inept a great deal of the time. He averts his eyes a little once he catches her wince, not wanting to seem impolite but at the same time not wanting to put too fine of a point on the fact that he'd noticed.]

Or similarly if time isn't taken in consideration beforehand...

[In other words; damned if they do, damned if they don't. A concept all too familiar to too many of the Heroes of Light.]

...question is, which is the lesser evil. To live with the regret it might carry, or regret having not taken the chance in the first place?