People he cared for? She knew she shouldn't allow herself to jump on phrases like that but it was damned hard to let it go without allowing it to affect her. "Merlin forbid you be rude," she said, her voice thick with unacknowledged emotion.
She looked at him from beneath half-lowered lashes. "Everything is far too much for just dinner." Especially as everything implied things she didn't like to contemplate about her life, past, present, and future. It was so damned hard not to just pull back into herself and deflect his attention back onto him or anything else other than herself. "How about a little quid pro quo, Mister Auror? You ask a question then I get to ask one."