"I can see why that would happen," she murmured as the cab moved toward her destination. She considered telling him the truth of her identity, but she needed to make sure he was trustworthy first. There were some carefully orchestrated things happening already, things that she had bided her time with to plan. After all, going off half cocked never ended well in her experience. She also had a lot on the line. She hardly dared think that her daughter knew of her if she remembered anything about Anne at all.

She'd been given no choice but to wait. She had hired a private investigator months prior and been kept up to date as to the goings on of the Carrington family... she knew that Pearl had eloped with a man closer to her birth mother's class without even knowing it. She was neither pleased nor displeased as of yet, reserving her opinion of the young man for another time.

The former nanny found herself staring out the window, not speaking for the majority of the trip.