Gideon had shifted the wards to let her actually apparate onto the front step, instead of outside the gated drive like most people ended up at. If the neighbors wandered why there were two huge gargoyles on the gateposts, Gideon never asked.
He'd been waiting for the popping sound of her arrival and a moment later, before she could even knock, the door opened. "Well, hello there, beautiful. Oh, you brought food, see I knew you were brilliant. Come on in. Welcome to the house of awesome."