"Will you?" Somehow he'd thought she had family to pack off to; she'd mentioned her brother. But if she wanted to stay to watch her students rather than commend them to his care, he wasn't going to complain. It was preferable on many levels. "Well - it's a quiet sort of holiday, generally. In the castle, if not in the village." He hadn't quite got around to canceling Christmas during his tenure, but there was always the threat.