"Every moment I can. I grew up down there and the old hands just dote on me. I can get away with murder down there." She winked at him as she added a pair of apples to her basket. "You'd be surprised what salty seadogs will do for a wide-eyed pretty little thing's smile."
"Oh, I believe in the necessity, I just wish that there wasn't quite so much of it sometimes. I mean, having to certify that imported kneazel hair is free of dweedum bugs when dweedum bugs have been extinct for nearly two hundred years is a bit much." She shuddered. "And don't get me started on the rumors about new employment laws being debated in the backrooms of the Ministry."