While she's happy to drop the coy formality, he must be brave and ask. His own fault for insisting on 'miss' directly after she'd said he could use Paloma. Just Paloma.

She draws swirls with the tip of her finger around the empty mug, feeling years younger in proximity to his excitement. "Art history was what I studied in the first place, so you couldn't be more right. Where should I meet you?"

So illicit, 'meet you'. Like a secret rendezvous in the making.