God. No wonder Michaela was nervous about meeting the rest of the Merry Men. He'd inferred that Norah had given the lass a particularly tough time, but for Michaela to have summoned the courage to tell her mother, only to find herself thrown into a mental hospital for it... Will couldn't begin to imagine what that must have been like, but he could well imagine she might be reluctant to open herself up to more rejection from family.
"You did what you had to to protect your sister," he said. "That's something to be proud of."