[Edge accepts these hurdles as still better than not getting a date at all, which makes this conversation miles ahead of most.]

Oh, of course! I wasn't saying now! [Though he does have a faint concern that this is putting him off. Hadn't she said she'd been back for a while now? But if it is, it's at least gentle, and she'd seemed up for it... and besides, now he'd promised Toyo hamburgers so how could she take such a promise away from the girl?] I'm sure you have a million things going on that you can't just drop everything and rush off with me. More's the pity for my heart!