It's fortunate, Joan reflects as she walks, that their jobs make them experts at dealing with information on the fly. Also at dealing with disconcerting news without revealing it. The only indication that she's distressed by anything she's heard is that her steps grow quicker and sharper as she approaches the door. She is not above wishing that this surreal dream or exercise or whatever it is will end now that she has found her operatives, and when she pulls open the door to the London snow, there is a brief moment, a tiny flicker of disappointment, one no one but Arthur (Arthur) would recognize when she is not somehow back at Allen's.
She reins in a sigh, scans the street, and turns right. There's a teahouse there that will suit. "Let's stick to what we actually know as opposed to our speculations, hm?" she says, much belatedly, as Annie and Auggie catch up with her again. It's sharper than she means to be, and when she tugs her jacket closed, she tips a very mildly apologetic look Annie's direction. "I remember a good deal more than either of you. Whatever the reason for that is, I suspect I ought to keep that knowledge to myself except to tell you that you're both still alive and well and so are the people you care about." Although the situation with Parker is not as Auggie wants it to be and Joan suspects Danielle's marriage may be in trouble, but those are details she needn't make them privy to. Not now.
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Date: 2012-01-08 10:55 pm (UTC)She reins in a sigh, scans the street, and turns right. There's a teahouse there that will suit. "Let's stick to what we actually know as opposed to our speculations, hm?" she says, much belatedly, as Annie and Auggie catch up with her again. It's sharper than she means to be, and when she tugs her jacket closed, she tips a very mildly apologetic look Annie's direction. "I remember a good deal more than either of you. Whatever the reason for that is, I suspect I ought to keep that knowledge to myself except to tell you that you're both still alive and well and so are the people you care about." Although the situation with Parker is not as Auggie wants it to be and Joan suspects Danielle's marriage may be in trouble, but those are details she needn't make them privy to. Not now.