"Whoa--!" He resituates his feet to stabilize himself, but no before a small stagger. All the while, he's alert. How he would shift himself, shift her, in the unlikely but nonzero chance he really does lose his balance, so that he would be the one to break her fall and not the other way around.

"Dear Princess... I'm asking you nicely... how could you possibly not want to come with me." It is not at all said like a question.