This means he didn't want to go have dinner with her; he was simply hungry from not having dinner. Since she invited him so earnestly, he reluctantly went!
Enna Clark understood what he meant and immediately played along, "I know, I know, my Bobby is the best."
"Hmph." Bobby grunted, mumbling to himself in a voice only he could hear, "The best, yet you still like Dubious Man the most!"
He spoke very softly, so Enna didn't quite catch what he said.
But she did hear the last four words.
Dubious Man.
Even with her toes, she could guess what Bobby was going to say.
She felt both like crying and laughing.
She really couldn't understand what was on Bobby's mind all day.
Previously, when she broke up with Baron Lawrence, he was all over the place, eagerly trying to talk her out of it, expressing not disapproval of her new romance, but his being unready to accept someone else as his dad. He advised her not to be with Lyle Westbrook and to reconsider.
