Jules looked up at Camilla with a start at the question. Had she liked it? She ought to have been expecting this sort of question from Camilla, honestly, but it hadn't occurred to her that that would be one of the most pressing questions, at the moment. The latter seemed far more in line with her expectations for how things might unfold, and so she decided to answer that one first. She'd actually thought about how she might answer the second question, while she had no actual response for the first.

"I'd never met him before the garden party," she said, which was true but bore reiterating in light of recent events. "But we exchanged a few letters after the ordeal with Mrs. Finch. And he — suggested we might talk in person," she said, returning her eyes to her tea cup. "Which I knew was a mistake at the time, of course, but for some reason I still agreed to it."

The specifics — that she had seen him alone and in person multiple times, at his house in the Hebrides, and that the most recent time had been after midnight and in her housecoat — were not details she felt were material enough to the story that they warranted sharing with Camilla.