Granger had been withdrawn for several days now, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to entice her to converse and share with him what troubled her. She had spent increasing amounts of time in the library during the day and shut herself away in her chambers at night, researching something she seemed extremely unwilling to share with him. He didn’t blame her. She was emotionally delicate at the moment, and he had not exactly been nice to her in the time they had been acquainted.