"If Allie's girls are so terrified of her, perhaps one or two might be willing to join yours. If not, I am confident in our ability to extract information from them. However, if Allie's hatred of you is greater than her control of her girls, we may be in trouble. She would have undoubtedly have set spies on your house, and we are rather.. distinctive. In which case, it does not really matter weather or not you come."