Autor nods. "I hope they receive you well, then, and that a compromise can be reached in short order."

He refills her coffee and blinks at her admission. "Oh, goodness," he says. He immediately calls out from his sylladex a regular pastry as opposed to the chocolate-filled ones, and presents it to her on a plate.

"A croissant is a yeast-leavened, flour-based pastry baked with butter," he says. "It might be too sweet for you? Obviously don't eat it if that's the case."