Ah, but interrupting business for personal looks bad; and the thing about (possibly most) women is they want you to have something that's more important than them. If you drop everything for them they won't respect you.

So he did the right thing from both perspectives. Which is probably why he's rich and has a (presumably) hot wife.

(I know that sounds politically incorrect, but alas, reality often is. To be fair, it probably works both ways: a man won't respect a woman who drops everything for him, either.)