"Yeah, well it's a dark world sometimes. Besides, I'm doing what I feel I would be best at."
She appreciated that he didn't seem to be taking the hypocritical stance of trying to tell her that her chosen line of work would be too dangerous. That was definitely a point in his favor.
"So you're helping out with a family business? What would you have done if you weren't needed here?"
Maybe she was delving too deeply, but she was curious. Though she had a hard time picturing him as anything but the old fashioned gumshoe type. If he'd had other things he wanted to do, it was hard to see because he seemed to have embraced his current role to the point that he might have stepped out of an old noir movie. And yes, she did like those sometimes.