[ elizabeth has never before seen the line drawn between the two: because there has never before been one. and maybe that's why so many of her relations are dead. she draws her lower lip thoughtfully between her teeth and says slowly: ]

It is.. then, perhaps wise to draw a distinction between the two? I admit that such a notion is new to me. But it makes a good deal of sense.

[ taken aback, lizzie eyes her a moment before releasing a deep sigh. ]

Many would. She is my mother after all. I simply recall that the lives of my sisters and cousins are of much greater import to me than her ambitions.

That future I was told, it was writ within books Ilde has read and taken as fact. Do you think such a future might be changed?