He doesn't know why the timing was all wrong. To him, the timing was perfect - they'd recently started getting on better but not so well that they'd fallen into the 'just good friends' trap. Or worse, 'just good colleagues'.

The only thing he can think of why she turned him down was that she was just marking time with him before she left as she kept saying she was going to do.

'...'f you say so,' he mutters, and says nothing about this.