Face-to-face is always the better way to go about it, yeah. Can't promise I'll think of anything to say worth the trip, but better safe than sorry.

[ There's some wry humor there, just a touch. Sally has always been much better about wording. Maybe she can write this statement for him.

He thinks for a few seconds and ultimately decides that today, at least, he'll keep his meetings a bit more separated than initially planned. Oh, there'll be time aplenty to get all three of them sitting down in the same room and on the same page. Today he could just... straighten the basic laces. ]

Anywhere's fine, if you can make it in about an hour. [ ...she at least gets first dibs, okay. ]