"You like him," Sinthia murmurs. It is not hard for her to pick this up--even less hard than it is for her to wonder about who in the world Howard is and why Peggy thinks of him with a first name.

As to the question, though...she could answer truthfully, as far as she knows, but it makes her no less unsettled to think of someone that powerful pulling the strings here and she doubts Peggy will take it well either. Lying directly to an adult, though, is something she does not have much practice in. (And it did't work at all the last time she tried it.) "I don't...know. How we got here. I don't know if anybody does."