Victoria noted the flinch and there was a momentary hesitation as she slid her wand back into her cursebreaker's rig under her robe sleeve. When Gabe's wand didn't appear in his hand, she completed the motion smoothly. As she did so, Gabe could see where the rig was strapped over her jumper she was wearing underneath the robe, except at the wrist, where it might interfere with the wand sliding into her hand.
"Whatever it is, nobody else in this library needs to hear it, up to and including Mr. Beckett." Victoria gestured in the general direction of the librarian's desk. "If you needed to have this discussion with me, you could have invited me to the dungeons or come to my office. There's no reason to do this in public, where the students can watch and listen. They're confused and disturbed enough by this situation."
Never mind the fact that she hadn't come to him either. Nor, she realised, had she denied that she wanted the job.