"...No matter what it did to her dignity, she would."

In the final pages of Rumors there is the tragic death of Will Keller, the discovery that Elizabeth is in fact alive and the forced marriage of Henry Schoonmaker and Penelope Hayes. All of these things have helped Diana Holland see the error of her ways. She knows that she is in love with Henry and that he is not meant to be with Penelope. "This longing was the first emotion she had been able to feel since she had heard about the awful thing that happened to Will. She knew if she could satisfy that feeling in any way, no matter her dignity she would" (423). Her constant longing for Henry is nothing she can change and seeing her sister fall into a shocked depression after losing her true love Diana knows that she must get Henry back. Before she held herself back and protected herself because of her meaningless pride but now she does not care what she has to do to get him back. The tragic and drastic turn of events in the final chapters gave Diana an entirely new perspective on the importance of certain people and certain things in her life. When things get crazy and out of the ordinary you check your priorities and sometimes you find that they are not in the proper order.