Millicent followed Pansy as if in a daze, picking up Ella's favourite toys and some clothes and putting them in a bag. In the back of her mind there was always the doubt - what would Justin think - yet still she finished the bag, feeling her stomach drop as she handed it to Pansy.
'Just a few days,' she repeated again, perhaps she could just finish her potions then - and she'd be able to handle things when Ella came back? Yes, that's what she would do, she'd get it under control. Then she wouldn't be so tired, and she'd manage Ella and work and everything else. The potions would only numb the pain, they wouldn't be a problem.
She purposely avoided to think on how she got the potions.