Marian didn't drop into, but a hand moved behind her back, she inclined her head, gracefully easy, and had lowered, without quiet reaching a full curtsey. "A pleasure."

Any friend of Amy's, is not quite a phrase she would consider using aloud yet, regardless of the fact it would have some small truth to it. But only some. It is still a different world, and one she knows little of, even if she has better knowledge of Amy than it.