[When he comes back, he'll find her with her phone in her hands (it's weird, there's technically no signal, but she had received a text from Solomon before she had left her room).]

I'm not gonna ditch you, not when this is our first time out together by ourselves.

[She glances at the newspapers as she sets the phone in her lap.]

Well, that's more than enough to work with. Eerie too really...

[Iona takes one of the papers skimming through it before going back to the beginning to read the lines carefully. As she does so, without redirecting her gaze at Claude, she asks rather casually.]

Are you familiar with anyone called Raoul by any chance? He's got a fancy title... Like a viscount...?