Que grosero he sido! How rude of me! I should introduce myself properly first. [the notion that hardly anyone here knows him is still odd...but strangely liberating too. Yet here he is, perpetuating the same joke that's been running for years.

he reaches for her hand - oh, sorry, interrupting your work?] I am Zelos Antonio Wilder, and I am very pleased to make your acquaintance, miss...?