Bella watched the woman with narrowed eyes. Just because she'd been out of the social circle and their games for most of her life she was not blind to what went on and how that game was played. "Naturally," she answered. "Andromeda is still the sister I remember. Loyal to her family, clever, perhaps a bit innocent." She'd been flustered all day about what went on between Lilith and herself though she'd not said.
"Yes she did, but you and I both know that at age eighteen young men hold a much larger appeal than girls," she answered. "Of course I want her social circle to be as big as possible, especially since she's working so hard."
"Stephen is your only son?" she asked, though of course she'd found out already. He was the heir to the Nott fortune, ahead for his age, without a speck of Muggle in his blood - and father and grandfather had both been loyal to the Dark Lord.