"Plenty of people are cleverer than I am, but if you haven't met them all yet, maybe it's best it stays that way. So I don't lose your good opinion of me." It's all a tease, and Rosie grins, leaning back a little in her seat and tilting her face up to the sun.

"You know, I'm not sure," she admits when Caleb asks. "He played a bit when we were at Guy and Anthony's Christmas party, not this last Christmas but the one before, so he must've learned sometime. We just...don't really talk about our parents much, either of us."

There's a reason for that, of course, and one that runs deeper and to far darker places for Neil than it does for her, but Rosie's not about to say anything about that if she can help it.