Her mother made sure that Leah ate extra and gained whatever weight she had apparently lost, bacl today itself.
"I don't understand how it happened to you. When your brothers came they were more muscular and healthy, but you," Emily tsked, "you look more weak. What have you been up to, Leah?"
'Trying to find out if I belong in this world at this point.' Of course, she did not say it because any alarm that her mother would find would be immediately reported by Jones to her father.
It was obvious that she was not going to share what was happening in her life bit by bit to her mother. Even though out of the entire family, her mother was the most likely to actually help her out in this problem, it would distress her and her mother is Distress was easily spotted by her father.
If her father came to know what happened, Leah was sure that it was not going to take him a very long time before making her forget everything once again.