I'm sorry to call so early," she says, "but I think I'm going to have to cancel dinner tonight.
"What'd you say to Onni when you canceled dinner?"
He was disappointment that Beast cancelled dinner and had to throw away what he had made.
She'd had to cancel dinner with him for this, so he was entitled, she supposed, to some snark.
Just the memory of the experience makes me want to cancel dinner.
Pocketing a sugar cube, she told her mother, "Cancel dinner."
"Only for you do I cancel dinner at my favorite restaurant in San Rafael and drive down into the city."
As soon as he heard the voice, though, he realized there could be much worse things in the world than Jenny phoning to cancel dinner.
Joy knew something was up when he'd canceled dinner with her family.
"Oh, I have to call Daniel and cancel dinner."