"I suppose I could always lock you in the dungeon," he says with a straight face. Jo can feel free to try to figure out if he was serious about there being a dungeon. He was, but she doesn't need to know that for certain right now.

He only lets her marinate in that thought for a moment before continuing. "You really think Sam's gonna want to wait to see you? If he was the one driving, they'd already be here."