[It almost goes without saying that she follows, and rather happily at that.]

He's not outside?

[What kind of guy isn't here for his own date? Rude. But maybe it'll end up serving a good purpose.]

Wait, so you know where he is and how long it'll take to get from here to there, right? [She doesn't even wait.] Can we go a little slowly? I wanted to talk about something.

[There hadn't been an opportunity between the night before and this morning, after all.]