"I don't own a house and I don't host things," Elliot pointed out curtly, because he could not resist. But she had a point, with some of the rest of it — he thought he would rather like to have children, and she would have to get used to Society sooner or later if she was going to be his wife.

"And I don't recall asking you to give up wand making," he added, with a wry smile. "But maybe some of these are details we should discuss when both of us have our faculties."