Susan's lips press together in a tight, thin line with very little direct purpose at all. "Perhaps," she allows, because Thomas had said they returned. There's no easy way to say this without shifting the mood of the conversation even further - it's a faux pas, is what it is - but she's told several people already and they haven't resented her for the burden of the truth. She focuses on the edge of the canvas, and says, "They're all dead, my family. Though Thomas said one of the books spoke of some change in the rules which allowed them all to go back even so."