Lilah smiles at Sloane's quotation, and also at the hint in his comment about her thesis. He's very good at picking up on the things a person doesnt' quite say, the suggestions she doesn't quite make. He also will have the good grace, she suspects, not to try to engage her in a conversation about chiarascuro or some such nonsense that bored her a decade ago.
She betrays no resentment as he orders for both of them. Maybe he's trying to needle her, but if so, it doesn't work -- she never understood the women who could work up a high dudgeon over the benign chauvinism of an older generation. Besides, now that she's let him order, she'll be perfectly within her right to expect him to pay. And she won't be able to taste the food, anyway, so she doesn't care very much.
His next comment is a more pointed barb -- so he knows or suspects she's not working for the firm. But she was prepared for this possibility and takes it in stride,
"So now we come to business." She raises her glass, and an eyebrow. "If, indeed, you are referring to business. I can think of other means, after all, for filling idle days."
Lilah meets his eyes. Dealing with Sloane will be easier if she can determine whether he wants to fuck her and, if so, whether it's an idle fantasy or a concrete goal. She remembers Linwood's territorial bitching, before the fundraiser, that Sloane was a happily married man and Lilah shouldn't be getting any ideas. But that was years ago and, as Sloane lifts his own glass, she performs the obligatory wedding-ring check. Only one factor, of course; not a determinative one.
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She betrays no resentment as he orders for both of them. Maybe he's trying to needle her, but if so, it doesn't work -- she never understood the women who could work up a high dudgeon over the benign chauvinism of an older generation. Besides, now that she's let him order, she'll be perfectly within her right to expect him to pay. And she won't be able to taste the food, anyway, so she doesn't care very much.
His next comment is a more pointed barb -- so he knows or suspects she's not working for the firm. But she was prepared for this possibility and takes it in stride,
"So now we come to business." She raises her glass, and an eyebrow. "If, indeed, you are referring to business. I can think of other means, after all, for filling idle days."
Lilah meets his eyes. Dealing with Sloane will be easier if she can determine whether he wants to fuck her and, if so, whether it's an idle fantasy or a concrete goal. She remembers Linwood's territorial bitching, before the fundraiser, that Sloane was a happily married man and Lilah shouldn't be getting any ideas. But that was years ago and, as Sloane lifts his own glass, she performs the obligatory wedding-ring check. Only one factor, of course; not a determinative one.