After leaving the carnival and bidding Edric goodnight, Febs and Mrs. H had set about walking home after collecting September from her friends. She could just tell her housekeeper was bursting to ask questions, but hadn't managed more than a couple off-handed quips about how well-behaved everybody had been that evening. It had Febs rolling her eyes and  laughing, that was for sure. Mrs. H was fooling nobody with her feigned nonchalance. Fortunately her sister filled any gap in their conversation with tales from her own evening.

The minute Febby had heard her housekeeper retire downstairs, after waving off an offer to help her undress, Febs moved to do so herself in a fit of impatience. She also heard September's door close down the hall with a resounding click, leaving Febs to sigh in relief. While mostly fun, their evening out had been almost painful; it left her positively itching to get her hands on him, which made her feel ridiculous, but going backwards in their relationship was a weird direction to go. This whole public courtship thing was going to be a lot harder than she'd anticipated... was it really worth it, was the question.

After slipping her ring out of her jewelry box and onto her finger, Febs snatched her wand off her bed and apparated out of her room and into Edric's. "That was miserable," She sighed as she sunk onto the bed, tucking bare legs up beneath her. In her haste to leave, she'd forgotten to pull the pins from her hair, so started to do so, setting them on the nightstand. "I mean it was fun," She mused quietly, running a hand through her hair, making sure she hadn't missed any pins. Satisfied, she mussed it all up and stretched out on her side of the bed, casting a look in his direction."But I don't know how long I'll be able to play along with this." She chuckled. Of course she would if she had to, but her suggestion of trying to go through some kind of public courtship apparently hadn't been as good as she'd wanted it to be.