As ambivalent as Draco sometimes felt about Pansy and the expectations he felt that the majority of people had for the two of them, it was refreshing to actually run into someone who seemed to want to see him, and he found himself almost smiling at her and nodding easily, for him.
"The same," He answered, though quiet wasn't the word at all to use, but it was far easier than the things he couldn't admit about the Manor and current activities. "Though I hadn't thought to run into anyone actually worth speaking to, here." And now that he had, it was at least easier to be polite with Pansy that to mull uselessly on his own.