Elizabeth absorbed this with the expression of someone who found the observation simultaneously reassuring and mildly unsettling.
"The Key situation," Diana said. "If Rex is addressing it directly with Grandmother, then whatever account comes out of that meeting is the account Grandmother is going to work with."
"Elizabeth, you know as well as I do that when Grandmother decides what she believes, the institution follows."
"Which means your concern about what she'll think becomes less urgent," Lily said. "Rex is in there right now making the determination for her."
"And his version of the Key situation is going to be whichever version is most useful."
Elizabeth pressed her lips together briefly. "That is both the most and least reassuring thing you could have said."
"I know," Lily said. "But it's true."
Diana shifted her weight slightly.
