Stone digested this information slowly, then began to ponder. Picking back up the cup and the saucer, she drained more of the tasty tea down her gullet, either deliberately trying to formulate or procrastinate a response.
After a few minutes, she looked back at Peony, speaking slowly at first. “There’s a definite reward in it for me. Us, I mean, my brother and me.” Besides this, the blue-eyed pale youth knew she had no reason to prematurely end to the task she had promised to undertake.
Returning to her normal pace of voice, Stone continued, “I’ll ask him before I go. To be sure.”