It's barely five minutes later than she hears that awful grinding sound again, and there is a blue box materialising in the living room. The Caretaker bounds out, in an entirely different mood to the one he left in.
"Rule one Madge, the Doctor lies!"
She doesn't know what one Earth he's talking about, but it's not exactly the first time. She'll get by.
But he reads the confusion in her face and continues, "I do have family. I have a wife and the in-laws."
Madge gives him a stern look. He was willing to leave them on Christmas?
Her Space Angel actually looks chastised, his eyes moving to the floor. "They thought I was dead."
She glares at him for that, abandoning his family - leaving them to think of him as dead. What sort of man does this? But the slight smile on his face and the fact he came back tells her that he's been to see them, though she'd doesn't know how in the space of five minutes - but she's seen many things today, many of them out of her son's science fiction novels, so she would be surprised if this could travel in time.
Her Space Angel thanks her, though what for she doesn't know.
And then he gives her one last smile before disappearing off into the blue box, which vanishes loudly.
Madge smiles to herself. She doesn't like being the damsel in distress but she doesn't like being the Knight in shining armour either. However on this day she's perfectly happy to be both.