"Oh, well I shall have to say hello when she comes to collect you." Sisse had the strangest sensation that Sloane was up to something? She couldn't have given Sisse a moment alone with Alvin on purpose could she have? After their conversation though it wouldn't have surprised her. Sisse suddenly felt warm at the thought, at what Sloane wanted her to talk to Alvin about.

"It is." She agreed, but having nothing nice to say, she decided to say nothing further of the event. Her mother's trainings had, after all, actually made a bit of difference over the years.

"They are." She told him, nodding toward the shores of the lake behind him. "They've gone to invest in the races. Truthfully I don't see the purpose in betting, is it a gentlemanly thing, or just a singular peculiarity of my brothers?" It truly baffled her, to waste money when the certainty of return was so low.