"Whereas mine would have smacked me upside the head for being late," Dora said, and she grinned, showing she didn't really mind. If what he said was true, she was flattered he'd showed up this early. She nearly blushed and shrugged slightly. "I'm pureblood?" She offered by way of explanation. "I grew up here. There's never been any real need before this year to venture out." She couldn't say she minded his confidence at all; in most situations she had plenty of her own, though she was feeling a bit like a school girl inside right now, awkward because a cute guy was taking her out and how long had it actually been anyway. She didn't want to think about it.
"Well," she drawled slightly, stretching out her brogue, " there's Aunty M at thr shop and my mentor as well, plus I might be a bit of a workaholic sometimes." She held her fingers close together and grinned, though truth was she wouldn't know what to do with too much downtime and she really didn't like to have time to think. Thinking led to bad things.
She unconsciously mirrored his pose, the head tilting natural to her especially when she started unconsciously to read lips along with the sound. "Oh darling, you really should check out the office, if only to make sure there isn't dreadful carpet there," she said with a laugh. "You'll figure it out though. I can't say I'd be the best sounding board for equality issues," not with thr Mark on her arm, hidden again today, and occasional issues sorting out what her opinion was versus what had been shoved at her years ago. "But I can always give it a go. And if I'm too far offbase you can just feed me more caffeine." Her lips turned up a bit, thinking of how much money she spent on coffee lately. She wasn't sorry either.
Dora ordered some dark as sin coffee and asked for a bit of chocolate to be added to it, the only sweetener she really wanted. She gracefully aceded to his wish to pay. "Ah my dark withered soul rejoices," she said as her hands wrapped around the cup, and she grinned over the rim of it at him.
"So you've been house hunting, right?" She asked as they got out of the way of the line. She followed his guidance though the way she held herself kept people from her path naturally.