Hermione shrugged and wasn't immediately sure how to answer Narcissa's challenge of her previous assertion. She looked down and shuffled some papers around her desk to stall for time. "I find that while I attend such things from time to time, my duties don't usually include such things."
In truth, Hermione had been given a small amount of grief for missing so many Ministry social events by her boss.
Hermione cocked an eyebrow. "Oh?" she asked, managing to only ask that without remarking about ministry 'harassment'.