He didn't mean anything by it, and he'd admit (to himself) that she earned it. As for the Conquest word, he doesn't mean it as badly as it might have come out.

"Not at all." He said with out thought and that might have started him. "I just wouldn't want to put a cramp in your... evening" he said as he waved a hand out, pointing a finger to a young man in a leather baboon mask giving them the eye.