And she'd rather know what's going on around her bar. She doesn't need excessive details on anyone's personal life (in fact, she'd rather not have them, thank you very much) but some basics are good. This is one of those basics that seems important.

Once inside, she pours them both a generous helping of brandy -- that's what was closest at hand, since a big shipment had just come in that day -- and gestures for him to take a seat at the bar.

"You left home because your family found out, or you left because you didn't want them to find out?"

Those're two very different things, after all.