She pursed her lips. Why did he care? Asking once was understandable; it might have just been an offhand comment or a way of making conversation. Asking a second time, even implicitly as he had done, meant he really wanted an answer.

On the one hand, her job was fairly innocuous; everyone who visited the House of Lytton had seen her there, so he might have learned of it from anyone. She didn't want to open the door to other questions, though, to things he had no easily explained reason to know.

"You're entitled to your opinion," she replied, sipping her tea.