[He's really messing this up, isn't he? He can tell from the way her expression falls further, that he's sinking her deeper into drunken depression rather than alleviating it. The problem is that he doesn't know her well enough to know what would help, and he's hardly good at this sort of situation in the first place.]

But you don't, because you are needed doing things that aren't drinking. Even if you save one, and let five fall, that's one person breathing because of you. Seems to me that's worth it.