Irene returns the smile- and gives the waitress one of a similar kind. Flirting, again, is her default setting; it's simply how she relates to the rest of the world. "And a cafe medici for me, thank you," she says, vaguely impressed when there's no answer of 'what?' This is no Starbucks, then.

(Stuck-up? Perhaps, but a girl has to find a place in the world somehow.)

She returns her eyes to Charles, and inquires, "Do you get bored easily?"

After all, he's a child prodigy with a job he seems to deem exceedingly rewarding, and she can't imagine that he's friendless- and yet here he is, being reckless and playing games with a stranger.