Basil smiled sheepishly, and his eyes darted back to his phone.
"During conversations between she and I, she seemed strangely concerned with appearing normal. More so than myself, in that sort of trying too hard way? Specifically, she seemed concerned about people asking her 'too many questions'.
I let it go because it wasn't much of a concern for me personally. Perhaps she had a bad childhood or something. But whatever it was she was trying to hide didn't seem to matter in the grand scheme of things.
I was archiving documents when I found a print version of this..." Basil
brought up the digital version of a news article from the society pages of The Maldon Standard.