Holden wasn't doing well. Noble had known that ever since talking to him at Mrs. Cartwright's funeral, but that still didn't mean his sending Henrietta to her sister's was a course of action Noble could condone. In the face of familial strife, the Greengrass family circled the wagons. Upper Class families had to do no such thing, because they had the secure cushion of money, and could afford to discard one another because of it.

He still did not entirely understand Henrietta's relationship with her mother. Noble had his issues with his own mother, but she had always loved him. It seemed like that wasn't the case for Mrs. Cartwright and her youngest daughter, and he didn't entirely get it. At least, if Mrs. Cartwright was still ignoring Henrietta, that maybe-meant that she didn't remember the incident that led to her death.

"I'm sure she'll speak more when she — gets used to her new life," he tried, although he was not at all sure. It was one of those things that people said. "Do you get along with your sister?"

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