"My entire brood is here with me, my daughters need new dresses though before they are to be properly presented. And when I haven't wrangled them for a fitting, their dotting father finds other ways to spoil them and keep them out of everyone's gaze," she said with her tone tending more to joking than sarcasm, but she swore Cedric knew of her intents to make alliances via their daughters and was doing it to spite that. But that was giving too much political credit to a man that simply could not stop spoiling his children.