"I'm sure she will," Alfred said emphatically. It wasn't hard to have better luck than his flatmate, and the comment about fire had worried him. The last thing anyone wanted was Bilton trying to start some sort of ritualistic fire in the middle of their flat. They were living upstairs — they'd probably fall straight through the floor if they weakened the floorboards. Assuming they didn't just burn to death first.

"Please don't catch anything on fire before she gets here," he said, slipping out of the hallway and back towards his bedroom.