*ushers all three of you into the living room, which is neat and orderly, but very much lived-in, with some of your sister's schoolbooks on the coffee table and plenty of your father's journals stacked on the floor next to what is evidently his armchair, next to the fireplace* Make yourselves comfortable.
*hurries back out into the hall and picks up the phone, dialling Elrond's office number as she wipes at her eyes (her boys)*