Ordinarily she'd have made it a point to blush charmingly, but her brain was too preoccupied to send the right signals along. Instead it was rushing to consult her mental calendar.
"From the 4th to the 11th I'll be away," she said after a moment, sounding rather disappointed. But she tipped her head at Spencer and tried to be consoling. "But, I could probably work September...I'll just have to find someone with good notes and get my assignments ahead of time and beg and...."
The more she went on, the less convinced even she sounded. But she was trying.