Zevran wasn't wearing gloves, for quite the opposite reason--only someone who failed to appreciate the finer things in life would risk exposing nice gloves to the roughness of this world's bar scene.

"Oh, I wonder if you could use the comforting." Maybe he could drive Eddie even further into drink like this. Usually he had to seduce people to learn their secrets (although, to be honest, he was more likely to stab them in the back than get information out of them at that point--he was an assassin, not a spy), but if he could get some information without even doing that, it would be okay too. If not exactly ideal.