Hey! He only hit on her when she didn't cooperate. And by 'hit on her', of course he meant with the mallet. Not that he wouldn't hit on her in her current state because, legs, but still. And it was a good thing that he didn't know that they weren't having that conversation because he wouldn't want to have it if he did.
"Not left behind so much as..." He couldn't think of something else, so he pointed to an open shop they were passing and said, "Look!" Dresses of all shapes and sizes hung and most of them were beautiful. "Red or blue?"