"I feared for your safety! Nathaniel, I cried for weeks when I thought you were going to marry Olivia." After learning Nathaniel was in Scotland and he hadn’t written to her, she feigned illness and remained in her room for days, until one morning, she rode out with Charlotte and Isabel. She once again began to attend events, but because the season was already over, it was easy to remain quiet and hidden from society. She went home with her mother to Fenwicke for a while, rode horses, and decided she was not going to let Nathaniel’s betrayal affect her any longer.
There were intermittent bouts of bravado, but only when her friends were with her, and a few more days where she cried and showed no one. Only knowing that her friends, who were her strength, were coming with her to Lyden, did s
