Always having important callers; Effie suspected Miss Selden was affecting hyperbole here, but sadly it wasn’t in her professional remit to argue about it. Effie did not have a solution yet, but her eyes narrowed thoughtfully, because she thought she might have a temporary workaround to keep it running, until she could do some more sustained observations back at the office and pin down the fault.
“Could you show me to another fireplace in the house, please?” Effie asked; not the kitchen Floo, but one not yet connected. “I may be able to reroute this Floo connection by feeding it through another place in the house first, through a temporary additional connection point.” If there was nothing external blocking this Floo, the parlour exit point might still work if the visitors were channelled through from an alternate direction on the network.
“I apologise – I neglected to introduce myself,” Effie added politely, although she had not missed the casually-dropped Miss Clarke. Miss Selden knew very well who she was, then. That was interesting, or unfortunate; being here, at her house, suddenly felt almost worse than bad luck.
“Could you show me to another fireplace in the house, please?” Effie asked; not the kitchen Floo, but one not yet connected. “I may be able to reroute this Floo connection by feeding it through another place in the house first, through a temporary additional connection point.” If there was nothing external blocking this Floo, the parlour exit point might still work if the visitors were channelled through from an alternate direction on the network.
“I apologise – I neglected to introduce myself,” Effie added politely, although she had not missed the casually-dropped Miss Clarke. Miss Selden knew very well who she was, then. That was interesting, or unfortunate; being here, at her house, suddenly felt almost worse than bad luck.
