There’d been no sign of Lady Malfoy up until then. He had not dared ask Pansy, too worried of making his feelings obvious. If she sensed his nerves she never let on, but her calmness helped him. If she was not worried then it meant Hermione was alright, that nothing had happened to her. He wondered what she might be doing, if she was with the Dark Lord. Thoughts of what the two of them did in their private moments kept lingering in his mind.