Ford returned her smile, but hoped she was being hyperbolic when she said suspicious. After having landed himself in the pages of Witch Weekly opposite first Begonia Belby and then more recently but less spectacularly with Penelope Fawcett, Ford wasn't in any particular hurry to have anyone speculating on him and yet another young woman. Though this party didn't really seem to be fancy enough to attract the attention of Witch Weekly writers, he thought. Hopefully if they were here, they'd at least found something better to do for the evening.

"So did I. It was a pleasure meeting you, Miss Potts," he said by way of farewell.

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