"Hey, what are you trying to suggest?" Jerry asks, a clear protest, though he's laughing as he says it, knowing full well he can't deny it. Plenty of girls have gone swooning at that story. He doesn't even know if they believed it or not, though he knows he can sell it, but they certainly played along like they did, and that was what mattered. With Grace, knowing that she'd been on the arm of someone else, he had no real reason to expect that she'd fall for it, but then, it still hadn't mattered much. Aside from the risk in approaching her at all, there hadn't been anything to lose, not really. Either she'd have been interested or she wouldn't, and after weeks, one night being rejected wouldn't have made that much of a difference. That she reacted the way she did, though — he would never have expected it, but he's sure now that it's got to be the best thing that ever happened to him. "I don't think that's entirely fair."