"I knew you had good sense." Because not having bat ears on a costume was totally a sign of good sense or something.

Glancing at her watch, she sighed. "Crap. Not to be the killjoy, but I should take off--I'm already in it for using work time and phone lines on the wedding." As she stood (and gathered the last of her precious pastry, because blood sugar was everything) Lois came to a split-second decision.

"By the way--what I said earlier, about having tons of company in the jinx-on-life?" Pause. "Overly-controlling was not in reference to Bruce."

Yes, she was going somewhere with this.