He briefly smiles - that's a prideful thing for a woman to say, when she's tempting you, and Keltham likes pride.
Keltham then checks, also briefly, teasingly, whether Carissa tastes like chocolate. He is careful to avoid the outward pleasure center with his tongue while he does that, both for teasing reasons, and because he doesn't know if she's a woman who requires warmup before direct clitoral stimulation.