"You would be confident if you were more naked." Like Rose, Gar generally talked a bigger game than he played. He was willing to wait as long as she was without pressuring her, but there was a difference between pressuring and joking or mock- (or less-than-mock-) begging.
"I probably should go. But hell, it's thousands of miles away. If I go now, I'll get jet lag." It was objectively false, but Gar didn't really care. "Besides, I'd rather do nothing at all with you than anything with anyone else."