His response made her smile despite herself. Maybe he was really just a normal guy. Her next response came quicker, and a bit lighter in tone, even if she was surprised to be invited to a dinner at his home.
Xavier,
I am all for helping people keep their sanity. Insanity, I am finding lately, is overrated. Am I to assume I'm going to meet your mother if I attend? Mothers can be frightening. Do tell me my mother isn't going to be there.
I may just have to go shopping in any case. Something to help you keep your sanity perhaps? We're not talking the same sort of distracting I did for you at the Quidditch game, are we?