[Susan laughs at that, as she heads to the counter. After a little while, she comes to join him, slipping into a seat opposite and setting a coffee and a slice of chocolate cake down in front of him.]

Someone's gotta watch for you. Otherwise, we'll only find you in dark alleys with questionable girls, judgin' by all that back there.

Try that. Go on. [She nods to the cake, and there's an excited kind of mischief in her look, like she can't quite keep still. She really wants to see this from the other side, is all.]