"I can accept that you've had a back record so far," she said, her voice even. "But I won't accept that you'll never be happy with her if you won't try."
Then she turned and took the mixing bowl over to a pot on the stove and added the contents to the simmering sauce. "I'm going to go get them for dinner. Draco, watch the pot please, just make sure it doesn't boil over."