"Why not? I'm pretty sure I said I would." She gives him a teasing smile. "Do I seem like the kind of girl who'd lead you on?"

Honestly, she figures she does. Natasha isn't the best at being sincere, and if he read that distance as ambivalence, she could hardly blame him. She jokes about it to save him from having to say it.

"Dinner didn't go that badly, did it?"