"I asked." She answered bluntly with a shrug. "I can't sit around idly for the rest of my life, and it's not like it's a particularly challenging job." It wasn't as though Mr. Binns would have her unloading heavy shipments on her own, and if he did that was what magic was for, was it not? "Besides, it's not as though I'm receiving many Society invitations. What else am I to do?"

She knew Ben was likely was going to recoil and be livid with her for asking without talking to him ahout it first. Which was why she quickly added the next bit, "I haven't agreed to it yet. I said I had to talk to you before we formalized it."