She could have used Antonin hours earlier over their tense breakfast. There were times he was able to simply signal to her with a lift of his eyebrows across a room that she needed to calm down and allow someone else to have a turn speaking. Years as his student and then even longer married taught them each a great deal about the other's mannerisms. He knew when she was moving into dangerous territory with her questions and she knew just by looking at his face when he had had too much to drink and was in danger of saying more than he should. For all that they didn't like about each other, they made a formidable team. Maybe if he'd been the one outside her broom cupboard everything would have been different.