Samuel stammered briefly, struck by the sight of Veronica's luscious body, then regained his composure and told her that he thought that she would never want someone like him, a lowly bartender with no family, that she could have anyone in Strangetown she wanted and he never dreamed that that someone would be him! "But," he said, grasping her hands in his tightly, "I'd be extremely honored to be that someone."