And, instead, he had concluded she was some kind of… she hardly knew. Fortune huntress? Perhaps, in the end, that was better than the truth. “Again,” he said, “I apologise. I sincerely apologise.”
So adventuress = "Do you do this kind of thing often? Going around to places and making men charmed by you?" damn she should slap him but I also kinda get that they're in that really blunt and open stage of becoming potential Lovers

