The wait had been agonizing, making it through the rest of the ball, trying to make a small show of being a good little part-time debutante and at least dance a few rounds with willing gentlemen. Though she didn't often have a lot of inquiries, tonight had been different and she wondered if it had anything to do with the rumors. Ugh the sooner this nonsense died down, the better. It also made it all that much more insufferable and was well past midnight when she finally found herself standing in her own bedroom, peeling off the ballgown and all of its layers before unpinning her hair. She was oddly energized, though she should have been exhausted.

After bidding everyone goodnight and closing her door, Elsie muffled the room and though she thought it silly, arranged her pillows in a somewhat convincing fashion of a body in bed. She took a moment to look for any lingering traces of magic around her room, other than the spell she'd just cast herself, but wasn't so sure she'd even be able to tell herself if there was. Certainly her mother hadn't put anything on her room? Nor would she check in. Elsie had feigned tiredness in the last half an hour or so, claiming she couldn't wait to crawl into bed for the night.

Hopefully it had been convincing enough. After a few moments more, she thought the house quiet enough, her mother and sister in bed themselves, so in little more than her nightdress, hair long and loose, she wrapped a shawl around her shoulders and disapparated. It was just a quick trip, a little alone time to get them through and she would make her way home again before morning. No repeats of last time.

The sensation of apparating would never be pleasant, but it was better than the floo network, she supposed. One disorienting spin later and she found herself in the middle of Tyb's room, the dim light throwing her off briefly before her gaze finally landed on him and a wide smile blossomed on her face. "Well fancy meeting you here." She quipped quietly, slightly flushed and swaying from the effort of getting there and just a little bit by the quickening of her heartbeat now that she was here.