"That's what I can't figure out," she concluded glumly. She was missing a piece of puzzle and it was the most important piece, it was also one that she might never find. She could ask Reuben but it was a very sensitive sort of question and if she was correct then he might be unwilling to admit he'd been forced into something so serious and life changing by a mere debutante. "I know it may seem illogical but it seems equally illogical to me that Reuben would do such a thing. Even if eloping was his idea, he'd never force her to agree to it which would mean she still had to make that same illogical choice." Where women were concerned there was always the argument that emotion in the heat of the moment made them vulnerable but it wasn't every day people eloped with seemingly random individuals. "Everyone thinks it so straightforward - Miss Finch is naive and foolish and my brother is... has been known to be a flirt, but it's not that simple, I know it can't be." Often in novels where an elopement took place it was between a rakish man and a woman whose morals and behavior were questionable but that wasn't always the case. Lydia Bennet had hardly been a naive wallflower, after all! Not that she thought her brother was anything like Mr. Wickham.
