"Certainly," Altair agreed, once Chloe was back. "I believe there's a place with pretty good coffee at the end of this block." He pointed down one of the streets outside the shop. "I'll buy."
He smiled a bit as they began to walk. He couldn't help but admire good breeding in a woman — it was the way he was raised, after all — but common women possessed an unbridled spirit that was dampened in most of the noblewomen of his acquaintance. Altair generally found their company refreshing, and his new acquaintance was no exception.
He left it up to Chloe whether to start a new topic of conversation or to continue the thread of their previous discussion.