While she's been in Darrow long enough for her to understand that such things are true, Demelza still hasn't been able to work out the how or why of it. For Greta to have her sister-in-law here and for her to not be the right version all at once feels terribly cruel and she wonders if such things might ever happen to her. If Verity were to come to Darrow, but without the slightest knowledge who she is.

Demelza thinks such a thing would break her heart.

"Tis strange how that happens," she says. "Strange and unsettling. I don't think I'd be able to bear it if my family were to be here and yet for them to not be the right versions of themselves. Not my father, but my brothers or my cousin-in-law. I miss her so much."