Karen pouts a little, and Connor waits patiently for her to recover from it because he doesn't quite know what else to do with himself. And with, 'not everyone can be dating', a statement it's very hard to argue with, she does quickly recover. And then drops a bomb that makes his head jerk back just the tiniest bit, as if she just poked him in the nose with it.

"...Con-Con?" he says, very uncertainly, before trying to shake it off. "I was just going to wear a black tuxedo. That's appropriate for a ball, right?"

He asks as if he didn't immediately start researching the minute he decided he would be going.