"Well, the universe dropped you practically into my lap. So it would be the universe inconveniencing me if it was someone at all..." he almost feelings embarrassed by saying that. Did he insinuate that she's an inconvenience?

She's not, at least not to him.

"I mean..." he starts to correct himself and then shake his head again with a sigh.

"Look I don't know how to talk to women okay, I haven't done it since the 1930s."