What an interesting question, she thought to herself. It was kind of a difficult one to answer after all, and she took a few moments to mull it over in her head. It was a bit difficult to phrase what she wanted to say correctly, just like it was probably difficult for him to ask in the first place. It actually made her crack another soft smile at how strange he was probably feeling about it all.
"Well... it's quite simple really," she started, pausing for just a moment to collect more of her thoughts before continuing on, "Do you want the rest of your life, the rest of your meetings with random individuals you see on the street or meet through friends, and everything in between defined by who your family is and what they did?" She stopped again for a moment, letting that bit sink in before continuing on. "The reason I asked you out with me today isn't because I saw you as Theodore Nott, son of a murderer. No. The reason I asked you out today is because I saw you as Theodore Nott, eloquent and gentlemanly and seemly nice. I know full well what your father could have done to my Aunt... to my uncle, to his wife and his children. But I don't want to spend the rest of my life dwelling on what people's family members did to my family. If I did... I would drive myself crazy." She shrugged, sighing a bit and taking her eyes off him to look at the blue sky above.
"I want to see the good in people, in life really. It's what keeps me happy. Maybe I'm being naive, but I don't really care. And sometimes it's really hard to see the good in anything anymore, but I have to try," shrugging mildly, she flicked a minuscule crumb from the tablecloth and onto the ground. "Does that answer your question?" she asked calmly, hoping that everything wasn't completely ruined. She was still willing to have a good time, and she hoped that her answer didn't make him hate her for any reason.