[Of the many forms of payment she expects to hear, dinner isn't one of them. It's either exceptionally forward or exceptionally traditional and she can't quite place which it's meant to be. (The latter, hopefully.)
Her gut instinct is to demur, state that dinner's still a form of thanks, but her brain's quick to rationalize: as far as team-bonding exercises go dinner isn't half bad, and hadn't she just been saying that they all deserve a bit of a reprieve? With that said, she does toss out one loose condition:]
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Her gut instinct is to demur, state that dinner's still a form of thanks, but her brain's quick to rationalize: as far as team-bonding exercises go dinner isn't half bad, and hadn't she just been saying that they all deserve a bit of a reprieve? With that said, she does toss out one loose condition:]
Only if you let me buy the drinks.
[Or dessert, whichever he prefers.]