She stared at him for a moment. She wasn't quite sure she believed that there was no price and that he just wanted to know if he could trust her, but she was willing to go along with it for now. Phil had never seemed like the type to try to snow her, although the people who were best at snowing didn't seem like it. And at least the impression she'd always had that he was more than someone who worked at the electric company had proven to be right. She'd never heard of SHIELD, but the best spy agencies weren't ones that anyone heard of.

"Well, Director Coulson, nice to meet you," she finally said, but didn't shake his hand. "There's a pub at the end of the block that tends to be a bit casual about what its customers are doing. We can probably sit there and chat without anyone bothering us."

It was the middle of the day, so they'd likely be one of the few people in the place, too, which would allow them even more relative privacy.