With Rodolphus absent for well over a day, the longest stretch of time he'd left her alone since she arrived, Hermione had the chance to think back over recent conversations she'd had with him that baffled or confused her without interruption. Several times Rodolphus made a comment that she didn't understand. Like all of the times he claimed that they used to lay in bed and talk about what the world would be like when the Dark Lord was dead. She knew that she'd never spoken such scandalous words. It was as bad as blasphemy in her eyes during the time she'd deluded herself into being a loyal Death Eater. And if she'd heard Rodolphus dare to suggest that their master even could die, she would be much more likely to report him for treasonous speech than to go along with it. There had been very little grey area in her life during those years.