When Mr. Lytton had said he had a question that might offend her, Juliana had been prepared for some sort of hypothetical fashion question. She was used to employees at the House of Lytton making references to her lack of style, or using her as a stand-in when they wanted to refer to some backwards society member without any sense of taste. That sort of offense she was ready for. She was decidedly unprepared for what he actually ended up asking.

"Oh," she said, for a moment too shocked to have anything else to say on the subject. Why had Mr. Lytton asked that question, she had to wonder? As an unmarried man he was unlikely to have found himself in a situation that required him to solve that particular dilemma. She knew he had sisters, but thought they (or at least one of them) was married, which would have made an unwanted pregnancy rather an unlikely scenario. Perhaps he'd gotten involved with someone who had now found herself indisposed?

The second question was why he had chosen to ask her, of all people. Did she still have a reputation as promiscuous? Her expulsion from Hogwarts had been so long ago, but perhaps those sorts of rumors had followed her even now, without her having realized it.

"Well, I'm not the sort to find myself in that situation," she said firmly, just to make sure he understood that she had no prior experience to speak from. "And if I did, I would think the context of how I'd gotten there would be very important in deciding how to move forward."