"It can be difficult to avoid sitting their table, but yes. I...have regretted not being more proactive with this warning. But I can't fix what's already done or, as it were, not done. I can be better about it now." There. It's almost a relief to have gotten to the same page at last; Deirdre sips her tea, closing her eyes. When she's relaxed like this, without her customary sharp grin, she really does look much less habitually sinister.