"Don't ever let her hear you say that," he says, amused and fond of them both.

"There's not much point lingering on the fact, it's only amusing trivia," he adds, because that's what he does, he just doesn't think about it very much. Their lives are their lives no matter what, not plots scripted by writers, although when she puts things the way she just has, it does sound as if they were part of a supernatural soap opera. "And we are not."

They're not going on a not-date, they're going on a proper date. Well, yes, that needed reasserting.