“You are very welcome. It is no trouble at all.” Percy smiled at her thanks, still helping to gather the books. He couldn’t very well allow the lady to attempt it on her own, his conscience would be quite irate with him, not to mention his sisters if they were to catch wind of it. “Oh no, it hardly even reached me. I just managed to wrangle it from it’s escape.” He gave her a teasing grin as he might to Cat when she was much younger and prone to adventures that would get the two of them in trouble.

Tripping at her own debut, he could see that being problematic. Had Felicity or Catherine done that they would have been mortified for an entire season, well Lissy would have. Catherine might have been embarrassed but she’d hardly let it affect her. “I am sorry for that. I have a friend who is rather unlucky himself, poor bloke. He once exploded a potion in our dorm room that smelled of roses, sugar, and cats and was the most unfortunate shade of green I have yet to see. You should have seen the way the cauldron flew around the room - it’d but your cart of books to shame.” Granted failed experiments and all Quin had become very successful with his candy business, so there was that. But some of those early days…. it had been quite the adventure.