-- That sounds lovely.

[ and, above all, convenient. luckily she's got a spare moment (peggy checks her watch) and can already be witnessed rising from wherever she'd been seated so long as she'd been addressing the device. ]

I won't be long. [ ... ] At least, no longer than it takes to stop by a tea-room and steal a few sweets off the table to have alongside.

[ can't be helped. ]