"Indeed." Laurie finished his tea feeling a little flushed. This meeting hadn't been at all what he had expected; tea with Narcissa didn't usually leave him feeling quite so pleasantly hazy around the edges. It was something about Celeste, he realised belatedly, though he couldn't pinpoint what exactly that 'something' was.
"Perhaps I ought to leave you ladies to it. You've been apart so long anyway and there are donors I should go and bother."