On hearing that Isabelle wasn't going to kill her, Ellie heaved a huge sigh of relief and launched herself across the gap, dropping her wand and flinging her arms around the older girl.
"I knew it," she said, face buried in Isabelle's neck. "I knew I wasn't wrong about that, I knew you were nice. You can't fake that kind of nice, and I could tell that you were lovely, right from the start."
Classic Ellie. Leaping before she looked. Or in this case, launching before she listened... Too late, she heard Isabelle's last words and pulled back to look her in the eye. "You mean you don't?" she asked curiously. "How come you're only just saying so now?"