No.

It was not a good idea.

While she enjoyed Mr. Pettigrew’s company immensely (perhaps too much), Desdemona did not think it was wholly proper to be alone with him in a sleigh, even with a driver there as a sort of ersatz chaperone. Though it was true that their professional relationship did allow for a bit more time spent acceptably together, being alone together in this fashion was a bit too intimate for her propriety’s taste.

And even had it not been, the memory of the summer—the last time they had been properly alone—and it’s awkward limb-flailing reaffirmed that this was A Very Bad Idea.

“I confess, the sleighs are much of the reason I came, though they only had the small ones left so I sent my siblings on without me,” Dezzie’s treacherous tongue replied, defying all logic. Knowing it was far too late to actually retract the statement gracefully, the chaser did her best to settle an innocent expression on her face, that Mr. Pettigrew might believe her to be answering his question in the literal sense rather than in the invitational sense.