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Miss Graves observed Sassy looking at Delia and said, “Huel but is quite a tyrant over her friends They all seem to bow to Delia” She irl

“You don’t approve of her?” Sassy asked cautiously

“Approve? No, I do not She is not the sort of girl the others should look up to”

“She had a friend—Beth, I think was her name?”

Miss Graves looked startled “Mary Beth? Heavens! What makes you ask about her?”

“Idle curiosity I overheard one of the girls mention how Delia and Beth had been friends,” Sassy said, boldly telling a lie

“Mary Beth was older, but Delia was—is just as wild”

“I suppose they found Mary Beth a position when she coently

Miss Graves sneered “That is ere told”

“Don’t you believe it?” Sassy felt she was getting so to be comfortable with the answers

“Listen to me, child, for you are little more than that I don’t have a choice I a for another position, so I don’t ask questions, but I am not deaf and dumb”

“Meaning?” Sassy probed

“Meaning there are things we don’t have answers for here at Netherby, and we look the other way because, in truth, we don’t want to know”

Sassy had nothing to say to this Instead of learning anything additional from this conversation, it had only served to put more questions into her mind She needed the truth

She wondered if a ‘talk’ with Delia would get her closer to that truth?