Just hearing Adrian say it. Adrian of all people... and when had she started calling Pucey Adrian? For this she blamed Verity... admitting that he thought something was wrong with Xavier both confirmed and intensified her own fears.
"Yeah." She moved just a tiny bit closer to him, her eyes on her knees. "I don't know if I can," she said. "I think he... I think I caught his eye." There was something unspoken in that, partly her own feeling that she might have gotten into something she didn't know how to get out of.