"Perhaps," she agrees. The situation is weird enough that there might be plenty unforeseen events yet in store for her, so who knows.

"If these rebel people decide to get tetchy about something or other, or if a common friend of ours shows up, it's not entirely unlikely." They have a lot of common "friends" who could cause trouble, after all. Very few of them she would actually welcome. And the ones she would like to see aren't the sort to make trouble.