Ted didn't answer but really, that was answer enough and after a moment he said - voice hoarse - "Of course I did." because why else would Ted get into a fight with Lucius bloody Malfoy?
He felt like it was his fault, his fault that Narcissa had married him, had ended up unhappy, had never gotten the life she wanted but at the same time he couldn't have given her happiness either. If he had seen why she was pulling away though back home, maybe things would have been different.