Eward looked at Katherine with a sheepish sort of stare, licking his lips which were suddenly dry. Her face said it all; she needn't say a word and to answer he shock he took off his hat and wringed it in his hands.
"I know you told me not to come..." he said quickly, almost apologetically, "but I had to escape my house, and I dared not visit anyone else. I needed to be where I could be..." myself "..at peace, of sorts. I do hope I am not intruding but if I am please say so." He hoped to God that he was not. The thought of walking all the way back to his home with his tail between his legs, hurt that she had dismissed was all he needed to push him over the edge.