As a matter of fact, I happen to like Claire so much better. Rolls right off the tongue.

[ Is it bad form to harmlessly flirt with your teacher before they officially take on the role, or only after? ]

It's nice to know we'll start with a subject I have experience with.

[ Spending one's formative years in the Japanese mafia doesn't permit one to be a slouch, slow-learner or squeamish. So she'll have to do her darnest to prove him wrong! ]

We'll be practicing with diagrams or living subjects and leaving the scalpels behind, correct?

Since I imagine you're fresh out of medical cadavers.

[ He hopes it's nothing quite so rudimentary, but besides that- Now who's teasing whom? ]