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"She and I were traveling companions for a time, and I would like to see her again," said Snaveling, perhaps a little too quickly.
Caity resisted what would have been a most inopportune smirk. From the way he spoke and the faint flush in the man's face -- not unsimilar to that in the faces of the women who had drank the gammers' punch but certainly brought on by different reason -- it was clear that Roa was something more to Snaveling than a mere traveling companion.
"I'm terribly sorry I can't help," she said innocently. "If anyone were to know of one of the Dunadan passing through, it would be Miss Aman, the inkeeper. Are you acquainted with her?"
Snaveling paused for a second before answering.
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