He blinked and re-focused when he heard her voice, then blinked again as he saw her, the beautiful woman before him. He rose and nodded, sweeping a hand toward the seat opposite him.

"Ah, sure. Yes. Please, join me."

He was not one, generally, for picking up people at bars, but if he had seen such women as this more often, he might have become such.

"Buy you a drink?"

He did not sit until she did.