Some ingredients could only be collected at funerals...
Besides, Cedrella and Septimus caused quite a scandal in their day by tying the knot, so the least Eileen could do to show her belated approval was to attend their spawn's funeral.
The spawn apparently took the task of spawning seriously, judging by the amount of ginger hair and freckles in the crowd. But not all of them were ginger-haired, like, for example, a bushy-haired woman talking to Eileen's employer, or the dark-haired man with his son's - obviously relations by marriage.
Wrapped in her usual funeral-fitting black robes and shawl, Eileen observed the crowd from the distance of Cedrella's grave. As she bent down to touch the stone and discretely scrape a strip of lichen off it, she murmured under her nose: "Well done."