She was here, and it was an accident. Lester answered her request with, "Of course," before he could even think of it. He wasn't going to turn someone back out into an apparently malfunctioning floo network if he could help it — especially not when he knew the person.

"But do you mind if we sit in my room?" he added, quickly. "My Mum's also home, and she'll worry."

That was the truth, although it was an oversimplification — Lester did not want to worry Beatrice, but he also did not want to make her aware that he had been keeping up an acquaintanceship with a debutante behind her back. Beatrice was worrying about him enough already, since Sloane's death and his stumbling through adult life.