Oh. Jack groks on to the fact that suggesting her scores were actually pretty decent will not, in fact, be helpful. He wants to remind Minty that she’d just told him she wouldn’t be inconvenienced in any way—but he doesn’t know how to say that nicely and encouragingly, versus it sounding like another put-down.

He tries anyway, smiling: "It’s just a minor setback. Barely even a setback. There’s always next time."