It doesn't get any better as you get older. I had basically the same scenario over the last month, only in somewhat inverted order: wound up spending the night on the 2nd date. So, mission accomplished if that's all I was after, which it wasn't. We got along well. REALLY well. Had some very good conversations as well, and I was thinking this might be a long-term thing.
Kept offering to buy dinner on the weekend for the next 3 weeks. Kept getting initally positive responses, followed by some random excuse on the actual day of why she wasn't free. This past Friday, I texted her that I was going to be working for the next two weeks solid and would really like to see her on my one day off, maybe dinner and a movie. She said she'd like that.
Got done with some stuff early Saturday afternoon, texted her...no response. Finally about 2 hours later I get back, "Sorry, just got out of a movie with my sister. We're going to go eat now."
Seriously? I said I wanted to buy you dinner and a movie, so you go off and do dinner and a movie?
Then she was busy all evening with family. Okay, no problem.
Texted her on Sunday after work. Dinner? Of course, she had just eaten. Care for some company this evening? "actually just gonna go home and go to bed" (this is around 5:45pm, and she doesn't work till 2pm the next day).
Right...enough time wasted and enough "schmuck" written on my forehead. Moving on.