<strong>Helena, shocked at Coopers suggestion </strong><br/><br/>"Well I won't be going straight home," Helena said as she scooped some jam and clotted cream onto her plate and used a knife to spread it over her scone, "I was planning to maybe visit the museum, I've heard it's the most delightful thing and then a visit to the pier perhaps, if the weather holds..." she babbled on about her plans for a bit, then paused as she took a small bite of her scone, chewed, swallowed, and followed it with a sip of tea.<br/><br/>The idle chatter and the tea-time rituals helped to hide her shock at Coopers confession that he wanted to take her from the house. And he even thought about the kids! So very sweet and considerate of him. The whole idea was of course preposterous. She couldn't leave her job. And she couldn't leave the children and they certainly weren't going to kidnap the heirs to the Winterstone fortune... The thought alone!<br/><br/>"It's very sweet of you, to want  to take me out of there," she said at last, smiling. "But really it's not so bad," she assured him, "It's just little things and I'm almost certainly overreacting."<br/><br/>As if to make up for dismissing him like that she began to butter another scone for him.<br/><br/>"So what brings you to Brighton?" She asked in a wild attempt to change the subject.