At Orsinos comment, Penny said nothing but when he oh-so-casually dropped a hint about her surrounding herself with famous people, her eyebrows hiked up so fast that they were in danger of becoming one with her hairline.
"I beg your pardon?" she queried chillily, "I think if I was the sort of person who liked to surround myself with famous people, I'd not only own a Weird Sisters album but I'd have slept with them all and gotten Celestina Warbeck to adopt me as her daughter. My nights would be spent eating food prepared by Gerd Curd and I wouldn't spend nine hours a day locked up in a back room reading forgotten texts on how to identify a cornerstone and foundationstone from underneath five tonnes of rubble and earth."
"I think," she continued as she neatly folded her napkin into squares "That famous people surround themselves with me."