Knowing that this was not a social visit, she asks what he wants.
For her own protection, she mustn't know this was anything more than a social visit.
When he was still writing, she kept social visits down, so as to not to take away from work.
The people may be very nice, but this isn't a social visit.
It wasn't to be a social visit, not at 8 o'clock in the morning.
"Is this a social visit, or do you report progress?"
"So why don't you want this to be a social visit?"
Is this a social visit, or are we talking seriously?
Certainly a purely social visit was a little too much to hope for.
They came over and chatted with him as if this were a social visit.