[Oh, he definitely did it on purpose; there's bait in all the chatter at this point, which is confirmation enough that he seems to have hooked this redhead's interest in return. That's useful, particularly given the endeavor that had brought him to the coat closet to begin with. Of course, laying bait isn't quite the same thing as landing a catch, so he'll still have to play this deftly, but...]

I'll keep my coat for now. But maybe you'll earn the opportunity to take it off me.

[The chances of that are basically nonexistent, but this stranger doesn't need to know that.]

As for why I'm here — I'm looking for the sort of person who hangs around in coat closets, and doesn't ask too many questions.

[A beat. He smiles.]

You're halfway there.