We live in a small village where everybody knows everybody else. There are two girls in the school (age 6 and 9, one is in DD's class) who I often see all over the village. They also walk to school on their own/go to Sunday school on their own etc. I have never seen them with an adult, and I don't know who their parents are, though I know vaguely where they live.
DD really likes these girls, they are both lovely. We see them about all the time & they are very friendly and chatty
We ran into them again today, and I said, without thinking, ooh, it's a shame we didn't see you earlier, you could have come to play with DD at our house. The youngest girl said, can we come later, and I had to say no, because we were en route to DD's granny for dinner, but they could tomorrow
It wasn't until afterwards that I wondered had I done wrong in asking them? If it had been any other child, I'd automatically go to their mum or dad first, but I've seen these girls 10 minutes away from their house at 8pm at night, so I assumed their parents don't really mind where they go.
I don't know what to do now, chances are they will be knocking at the door tomorrow, and of course I am not going to turn them away. However neither do I want an irate parent at the door who has got the wrong end of the stick.
What should I do?