Elizabeth noted in the days after Sawyer’s discussion with Elle that she wasn’t spending so much time with Cordelia anymore. She wasn’t working in the library anymore, but the family history book was gone so it could have been that her absence was simply a courtesy, so they didn’t have to see her work.
Sawyer had hoped that their private discussion would start to repair their friendship, but it seemed that it was far too late for that. T made Elizabeth feel sad for him when she realised how lonely he must have been at times. She didn’t have many close friendships, but at least she knew the people she was friends with were really her friends and not just with her because of money or status.
She was sat reading quietly in the library one afternoon a few days later, aware that sawyer was bu
