“Understanding?”
Elizabeth sounded confused; she did not think of herself as an understanding person, and she didn’t think she had been understanding of what Sawyer had been through at all.
“Yes, Elizabeth. Understanding.”
“But I really haven’t been understanding, Sawyer. I wasn’t sympathetic at all, and…”
“…you have been far more compassionate than you are giving yourself credit for, and you are being a lot more reasonable than you need to be now, too. It’s obvious that you are only putting up with Francesca for my sake.”
Elizabeth cleared her throat, nervously; he was right about that much, at least.
“It would have been cruel of us to abandon her. That would have made us as bad as she is. And it wasn’t just got you; Jonas would have been miserable without her, he just didn’t want t
