Ah, but you never actually said something, Dimitri! I did, and it worked well enough for me. I think you're much more pleasant and sophisticated company than myself, and Miss Foley would be a fool to disagree.

Come now, if she says no then she's not worth your affections anyway, and you can keep her as a friend and feel horribly validated in your own bad opinion of yourself, no matter that it's complete lies. I'll bring you ice cream if you're rejected, like the girls at school used to.