Even if she was there, at best, the Royal Engineer was just helpfully getting her back to the palace. He’d put her down once she’d had a chance to catch her breath. It wasn’t like he was going to jog right up the steps to the patio behind his office to sneak her back into the palace with him where nopony would see them together. And even if he did do that, it would just be because it was the fastest way inside.