"I hope you like steak. They serve the best aged beef I've ever had."

She nodded. "I've never had steak."

"Never?"

"We have roast beef but never steak."

He thought of something appropriate to say. "Well, I'm sure that Nick's is the best introduction to steak that you could ever have."

"Thank you for inviting me."

"No, thank you." He decided not to say that he would have never had the guts to come here without someone. He still hadn't gotten ...