Clarissa smiled in response to the lightly teasing tone. "Indeed, I do," she confirmed, giving his next question a moment of thought. She was not generally a creature of impulse. At least, that was what she often told herself despite the evidence often pointing to the fact that she often acted on impulse.

"I would be amenable to that," she said, under the assumption that he was leading up to a request to court. She didn't have final say, of course. But she didn't see why her parents would decline, especially if she was already all for it. He was wealthy and pureblood — at this point, she was pretty sure that was all they would care about.