The people she hired left soon afterward. To be honest with you, I never really had a connection with them. They were Elizabeth’s people. “When I think back now, I see how easy it was for me to do. How easy it was for me to become absorbed by the work rather than the people. And I guess they knew that. Because after Elizabeth left they all seemed to regard me with suspicion. Like I had let her go without telling them or something. If Elizabeth could leave, a woman like that, what did it say about them for staying? At least that’s what I believed they were thinking. Who knew? I was too
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