she looked at him again with confusion on her face . the manager 's expression had closed down so hard miller imagined he could hear the click . `` are you the best my mother could come up with ? `` i apologized for that , '' i say , wanting to tell her i never broke that rule . but she did n't like that empty seat , and she did n't like the silence of the plane . i knew she was going to expect me to go out with her . 