's all-knowing gossip maven, whose identity was at the heart of several covert (and not so covert) investigations by various members of the Ton in season 2, came between BFFs Eloise Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington (aka Lady Whistledown).
Their friendship was irrevocably broken when Eloise learned, after being wrongly accused by the Queen of reporting on the Ton's scandalous affairs as Whistledown, that it was Penelope — with some help, of course — who was responsible for inciting all the drama in her regular gossip sheet.Their blowout fight in the last episode of the season is the exact moment everything changes for the two, now estranged, friends.
When Eloise begins putting the pieces together during the last ball of the season, she confronts Penelope after discovering loads of money secretly stashed away in her room.
When Penelope tells her it's none of her business, Eloise asks point-blank, «And what exactly is business, Pen?» For Eloise, hearing Penelope repeat gossip she's overheard or witnessed at the ball without batting an eyelash struck the Bridgerton as suspicious — and she made it known to her friend. «Sounded so familiar, your words.
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