Pretend She's Dead
After hearing that man's hopeful tone and seeing him indicating for them to enter, Lothur sighed and said. "Sir, I think we'd better talk somewhere else. It would be better to keep this just between us..."
The man froze upon hearing that and looked in the direction of his home, where his children were at the moment. "You mean..."
"Don't be hasty, sir. I just want to ensure you have the peace of mind to receive this information. I don't believe it will be good if your children are around." Lothur said before Otto finished his words.
"All right, I have an office nearby where no one will bother us." He said this and then asked the children's nanny to look after them while he left.
After a few moments, their group reached an office at the end of that same street, the place where this man worked.