"I cannot speak to you at meals; they will all be there." Mary glances down the hallway, eloquently.

"But I am in the garden as often as I can ever be. I shall try."

She has to keep an eye on Galadan. She is now, after all, the only person in the world he now inhabits who knows he used to be a super-villain trying to destroy her world; that makes it her job to make sure he doesn't backslide.