Elliot was almost as baffled by the look she gave him as he was by her being here, but if it was intended to shame it worked — he looked up at the sky instead of at her.

"This is my house," he pointed out, feeling just as indignant about that as she apparently was about his being here. He would have preferred to wander back into the home, too — but he knew very well that he ought not to leave her here unattended.

She could be insane, after all. That seemed likely.