Benevolence didn’t want to scare him, but she rather agreed - Melodys sudden disappearance was beginning to be a little ‘concerning - perhaps that was over stating matters too much but as she ran down the list of the reasons that Meloday might have absconded from the party and none of them were good - none of them were amormentia punch, and mostly involved some manner of personal calamity.

’Perhaps you should.’ she acknowledged. ’I’ll be here a little longer.’ She wasn’t sure when Roman intended to go but she had dances on her card that were probably more than an hour away. ’I can keep an eye out for her, and can send you a message if I hear something.’ Hoping that Mister Crouch would get home and find his wife tucked up in bed, and a mistransmitted message of her departure.

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