Later the same evening Selene turned up. It seemed like nothing eventful had happened when she was gone, but she didn’t offer an explanation for her disappearance and Sawyer opted not to press her on it. Elizabeth wanted to question her privately, but there was no ‘privately’ in a small house filled with people who could probably hear what was going on down the road with perfect clarity.
She didn’t want to seem overly keen to get Selene away in case Sawyer suspected they were planning something, and she still wasn’t sure she wanted to try the stuff anyway. In the end, Selene was the one to approach her. She asked quietly and calmly if Elizabeth would like to talk to her privately about what she had learned, and Sawyer was so un-bothered by it that she felt comfortable going with her. He
