"I wanted to study." But being away from family hadn't necessarily been bad. "And I had Fitz with me, of course."

At least her parents had tried to keep up with her, and show an interest in her increasingly esoteric interests. She remembers Fitz's mum as being perpetually bewildered and rather annoyed by the pair of them. There'd been none of that, at least, once they'd established themselves at university.