prodding a long-dormant character.

[sensiblesusan]

Well. It's been a while, hasn't it? A very long while indeed—nearly four years, if I'm not mistaken. I would ask why you're not leaving well enough alone, but you've never been very good at that for long, have you?

This is against both our better judgements, you know. I didn't want to say anything, but you insisted, so now I've got to speak up and remind you that this is a terrible idea, for so many reasons. You scarcely have time to review the books, much less commit to a time or place—and I'm not going anywhere near that boat; that last abortive attempt was quite enough, thank you very much.

I know it's neither popular nor useful to insist on being sensible, but it would be better for both of us if, just this once, you actually were.