Kitty's eyebrows rose in a manner her mother most certainly would scold her for. The girl most certainly was not fine. But the girl continued and the explanation did make sense. "Oh! I'm so glad. I can keep you company until supper then and we shall be able to walk down together." Kitty plopped herself down in the chair next to the girl glad she was able to finally have a plan to help.

"How did it happen? Or if you'd rather not talk about it we can talk about books or classes or really anything. We shall have a wonderful hour." Kitty declared grandly as if it were her mother stating their visiting hours would be wonderful.