He would start for a moment, as frankly past experience told him that a kiss from a woman would likely be followed by her either giggling and moving off, or giggling, bending him over and spanking the crap out of him after she groped him. If he got hard it was because he was a lustful beast. If he managed to not get hard, because he offended her by thinking she was not beautiful.
Still, he would nod. "Aye, and thank you." He did smile, as he reached out, patting and holding her shoulder for a moment, before he would nod, moving to take his place at the front of the party, to see into the dark and for anything of mystical nature. "Further in and deeper down." Granted, he did not want to go too far on the first delve, mainly because he was not sure he was ready to descend too far into the dark, lacking as he was in reserves of eldritch power.
Frankly, he was not eager to try conjuring a fireball either.