"No, no, no, I didn't say you were commonplace," he said, shaking a finger at her. "I said the act of seeing you almost naked was commonplace. There was nothing included in there about you specifically being commonplace so I think you should apologize for your unfair assumption about me."

And he hadn't let go of her hand either. If anything, he'd tightened his grip slightly and given her shoulder a bump of his own.