"Thank you for your suggestion," Khaat said calmly, with a quiet and relaxed pleasantness to her tone, to Narcissa Malfoy, "I'll keep it in mind. Are you here visiting someone?" Khaat knew of the Malfoy family and their typical strategies well enough to know no Malfoy ever paid a simple social call. She had come to believe the family was interested almost exclusively in power--how to gain unlimited amounts of it, and how to wield it to their advantage. She had no doubt whatsoever she was being sized up as to whether she was a worthwhile challenge to them. She had no bone to pick, in particular, with the family, although she didn't approve of the things they thought were valuable. Clearly Lupins and Malfoys saw the world from totally different views, and those differences had been going on now for generations. Therefore Khaat knew that both she and Narcissa were abundantly aware of where the other stood. Khaat, though, was not in the mood to either provoke or participate in any unnecessary pleasantness, and she needed it to be unthreateningly made clear she was no one's doormat either.