She had to admit that he had lost her, and she chuckled, 'Alas I took history of magic and care of magical creatures instead. Riddles I understand, but numerical ones are very much beyond me. Samson's Riddle, the honey in the lion, Shakespeare's mystery of the casks - those are much more my speed.' she smiled a little sheepishly. It wasn't often that Christabel was out of her depth in a conversation like this, but this was certainly the case.

'Are you one of the gentlemen here who is employed?' she pressed, aware from the general chatter that some of the gentlemen here were not just gentlemen of leisure. Chris was keen to ease her own discomfort once again as for the second time in this conversation - in a very short space of time she did not feel herself in control of the conversation - and she really really hated that.

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