"No! No, it's fine-" she shuffles the ledgers aside.

"Do you want to talk? About Anton? If you don't, that's fine, but if you're up to it and you think it would help, then I have a kind of selfish investment myself."

She tried to inject a humorous tone into it. She wasn't sure how successful she was.

"Do people actually do that? Slide down banisters?"