"She did," Greta says. She still feels a bit foolish over it, despite the fact that Regan, too, was apparently none the wiser. But she knows that once she's worn through her embarrassment, she'll just find it touching. That Anne cared enough to be patient, even if some of her caution — the implications tucked beneath her accusatory 'I don't belong with you' and 'you shouldn't want to be around me' — was needless.

"I know you haven't spent much time with her," she adds, something that now feels like far more of an oversight than it used to, "but I think you might like her, if you got to know her better." She watches Regan, her expression cautiously hopeful.