"I may just," Irene drawls. "Goodness knows I've got enough free time."

This isn't strictly true- she works a reasonable number of shifts at the Vault, and working nights means she spends a decent part of the day asleep even if she does have the day free. And there's one client in particular- a friend, as Irene calls those clients who get special treatment- who has taken to requesting 'house calls' in East Gidd during the day. It's not something Irene would usually agree to do, but he's a reasonably important, very rich man and she hasn't got a playspace of her own. Yet. Using her house would be a bad idea- too personal. Then there's the amount of time she spends networking and researching, slotting herself into Baedal and the lives of its inhabitants...yes, she technically has free time, but Irene Adler is one busy woman.

"Which is something you can look forward to if you do get a job at the Vault," she says breezily nonetheless, "provided you don't mind late nights. But I hope you aren't easily shocked. It's- adults only, put it that way."

Again, it's hard to tell whether she's seriously being coy about it, or whether that coyness is another joke. (The latter).