... I-- don't know. Isn't a courtship just... the old-fashioned way of dating, anyway?

[ a pause, relaxing slightly to rest her chin on his shoulder. ]

If-- if we... you know, do it, then isn't-- that's beyond courtship already, isn't it...? Um. ... it doesn't have to be different, if you don't want, I think. We don't have to be... dating, or-- you don't have to call me your girlfriend, or anything like that.