Minty smiled as the gentleman did not seem to think anything negative about her answer. It felt like a pipe dream these days though. In just a couple of years, she would be branded a spinster. Love and romance seemed out of the cards for her though at this point, she would even accept a convenient marriage. Anything to no longer be a burden on her brother and new sister in law.

"That would also be quite the way to go, Mister Knight," she conceded with a small laugh. She wondered for a moment what mark in history might be left of her as it was. Certainly their name currently had a stain upon it but that was Bella and her fathers fault. Perhaps Julius would be the one to bring their Scrimgeour name back to glory.

She smiled as they continued walking together. She was finding herself to be quite charmed by him though with his manners, she felt anyone would be. She could sense he was attempting to flirt with her and she was not altogether adverse. The problem here was that she did not quite know how to encourage more of it.

"Well, the woman whose arms you would have been found in would surely have counted herself lucky," she said, surprising herself a little.