Is there nothing I can help with? Please, if you need to get up for something again, let me do it instead.

[She fusses, hoping to offer an acceptable compromise between his hospitality and her need to extend the same courtesy in return.]

Oh — I can serve! I'll do that.

[She glances to him, looking for approval, with her knife and fork at the ready to lift some of the pancakes off of the serving plate and onto his own once she's given permission.]