The parlor was filling up rather more quickly than Adelaide had anticipated, and it seemed as if everyone was talking all at once, but perhaps that was only Adelaide's anxiety getting the better of her.

She inhaled. She exhaled. the moment passed and suddenly they were on the subject of Azkaban and lives of crime. How funny, these were Thornton's friends? it was not the lot she had expected. Addie stepped aside, allowing the space of the hallway to open up enough that the new arrivals might walk in. "No one, I should hope." Adelaide said, with a soft chuckle. "Please come in, I'm Adelaide Thornton, I'm one of the cousins." It was really only when she was introducing herself with Thornton around that she remembered how irksome it was for his first name to be her last.

Something would need to be done about the luggage, should she call Mipsey? She didn't want to leave their guests and there was still the matter of sleeping arrangements, not to mention Cassius could stop by at any moment-

"Thornton, we really ought to show them to their rooms," It was not quite a reminder, and more of we probably shouldn't leave the guests just standing here in the hall. It was terribly rude, wasn't it? Adelaide worried so.