"I don't think she did." Ulla wonders sometimes if Signy was capable of understanding how much Ulla loved her. Then she wonders how she could possibly not know, when they were so closely entwined, sharing secrets and wrapped around each other.

"Roffe, the prince. He saw that she'd fallen in love with him. He threatened to lead her on, promise to marry her, and then break her heart. That's how he convinced me to do what he wanted. And yet he still stole my knife to use as leverage, in case I didn't love Signy enough" Neither of them realized just how much Ulla loved Signy, not even when Roffe was using it against Ulla.

In the first betrayal, the one that preceded the night Ulla lost everything, "Signy helped him steal it."