She could see his face visibly change at her statement. She opened her mouth, wishing to not delay Will's torture, for his expression certainly conveyed that her words had plummeted his mood. (In hindsight she would be oddly comforted by this; it meant he still had some iota of feeling for her, and Merlin he'd needed a good push.)

"It's just," she began, raising her eyes up to him again to regard him with a steady gaze. "My family told me that my relatives in Singapore are very much missing me as of late." The torturous part was that Allegra and Alaric had not been very descriptive in this announcement. "They should very much like that I spend a few seasons abroad with them." She looked down at her glass again but raised it once more to meet his gaze.