She was certainly the only person who had been invited in - and being allowed to follow was as close to an invitation as Severus had ever given, as far as his personal quarters were concerned. "I was disappointed, too," he said, his expression flat and dry. "But one makes do, of course." It was better than the room he'd kept down in the dungeons, better than he'd ever lived, but it wasn't really built to impress. Or he hadn't decorated to that effect, anyway. "It has the benefit of not being spied upon by my dead predecessors, which can't be said for my office."