"You are Katherine's age, and maybe you can or maybe you can't, but expectations were different. Look at Belvina. She's your age and was set to get married to a man she didn't know, because it was normal." Stephen knew that Andromeda's situation had been different. "You married early because your family wouldn't have accepted a Muggleborn. Today, women don't get married this young. They expect to work, have a career and then get married."
He looked at her with a frown. "Do you want to have children this young?" Not that it was going to happen. Stephen knew a plethora of spells and potions that would prevent that.
Stephen smiled a little. "Then you should be happy that I'm boringly plain when I talk. If I don't want someone to know something I don't say it, but I don't play verbal games."
He reached over and brushed her hair. "Does your silence mean that you still don't know?"