"Nonsense, Cass. The company alone will ensure that it's a better party and if you claim otherwise, Narcissa might ban you from the country," she answered, laughing. "Exile is so lonely."
Astoria sniggered. "You do that, and then you tell me what she says."
She nodded as if she understood, but she really didn't. She hugged and talked to her son, and being overly pleasant was not a way to avoid her questions. Maybe she was nagging, but she was his mother, and she'd find out what was going on with him. "The fact that he can work doesn't really please me. He shouldn't have been there in the first place. This would have never happened if he'd followed Draco and helped run the family businesses."