“Oh, honey, you didn’t?”
“That bad, huh?” Jerome asked with a wince as he stated the obvious.
Martha returned his smile as she sat back down. “The last thing a woman like Lois would want is to be a prize in a pissing contest with another man.”

Yes, Lana ‘asked for his advice’ back in his own dimension.
Jerome raised his hand. “I know. I know. The worst possible thing I could have said, apparently.”
No, he could have said: Fine, go and marry your rich sugardaddy, you golddigging whore. I think that would have been worse.
Martha decided it was time to refocus his attention off his proposal and onto other matters. “How did she discover your secret?”
Superman and Clark both have the same birthmark on their…, well…Lois got to examine it during his hospital stay.