"I haven't tried curry yet," Neil says, smiling brightly. "We should try it sometime--or. You should let me try it, with you."

With the girls? Neil is seeing Patricia, he supposes, so maybe they could do another double date. Trying to figure that out makes Neil wish he was back in the dorms, for a moment. More than that, it makes him wish that he felt half as fluttered when he was alone with Patricia as he was just then, just watching Gabriel hold his mug.