Audra found herself stealing glances at Noble and Grace's side of the table which had grown rather quiet, abnormally so she thought. Grace was to be expected but Noble was hardly afflicted with timidity as she was, he almost looked as though he was so bored he was imagining himself elsewhere. If he wasn't careful their guest would notice his faraway look and Grace staring down at her lap and feel insulted by the pair of them and really he was likely to notice any moment given that he was sat directly across from them. At least Verity and Ford were perfectly capable of being distracting but short of rendering the man blind it wouldn't work for long.

Audra leaned in to the table as discreetly as she could so that she could reach her hand out far enough to smack the side of Noble's leg. "Grace, you've been wanting to attend a quidditch match for a while now, haven't you?" It was an utter fabrication, she'd scrambled for some sort of relevant comment she could make to get Grace's eyeline back to where it should be. In fairness, she thought she'd caught Grace gazing at a broomstick in the window of a quidditch shop the other week for an ordinately long time so it wasn't entirely impossible that her daughter might have a quiet interest in the sport. No matter what Grace really felt, all she needed to was agree and perhaps add an adverb and an adjective, that wouldn't be too much for her surely? She kept her eyes on Grace in the hopes of establishing some reassuring eye contact.

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