Keltham enters into his date with Meritxell with only a slight sense of trepidation. He's mostly worried about strange things his own brain might do to him.
He's only a little worried about whether Meritxell will suddenly decide that she should stop seducing him and let herself be the one seduced during the rest of the date; thereby revealing the true illusoriness of his apparently promised rise out of the ranks of the median male mate-value, that's not high enough to get much seduction-work put into you, compared to the amount expected by, say, a woman.
But mostly he is in fact expecting this date to go fine, and if not, he'll deal.
He'll open by asking if anyone has mentioned to Meritxell the contract that she'd have to sign if she wanted to preserve her options for the evening getting sufficiently interesting; signing this contract doesn't decide anything, to be clear, it just preserves possibilities in that undecided future.