"Nope, I don't have to, but I'd like to continue the conversation, and maybe talk to you again sometime, but if you keep up with the constant unnecessary apology thing, I might start getting exasperated. So, let's play it safe. It'll be like a game." he told her. Mostly he just knew if she kept it up it was going to annoy the piss out of him and he would start avoiding her. So, he was attempting to give her a chance to not do that.
"I've been through the south, I know the type of people you're talking about. And it sounds that way, but it also means that I met a lot of absolutely fascinating, wonderful people--and was only a passing sidenote in anyone's life. It means I didn't have a life that afforded many friends, as it were." he spelled out for her. "My father died when I was eighteen." he answered her.