She was about to ask him if he thought the person he was hypothetically waiting for would actually want her there when he brings her attention back to his tentacles again.

"I do not mind at all."

In fact, she's standing and taking his hands to pull him over to the water with a faintly alarmed look on her face over the thought that she'd possibly been keeping him out of the water to talk to her and hadn't noticed that he was starting to dry out.

"You need not ask my permission. Are you all right? It does not hurt?"