Nearly choked on my ice giggling at the line, “…all my wiles leave him unmoved, he is so professional.”

Feels like she’s definitely baiting him at the end there. I like the comical use of her paranoia, an inevitable side effect of being a part of espionage and trickery.

I love her off-hand revelation about the ‘curse’ – deployed with sufficiently accurate comic timing to ensure that the poor kid chokes on his schnapps.

The levity appears to be escalating rapidly – I can’t imagine where this might end!