- The night they set the fire, the Liars planned to run from the house through the mudroom door and meet back at Cuddledown.
- There, they would wash their clothes and watch Clairmont burn from a safe distance.
- They were all drunk, though, and obviously things didn't go as planned—the bookshelves in the study, which Cadence lit, burned quickly, trapping Johnny and Mirren upstairs.
- She heard them screaming.
- Still, even as she ran out of the house with her clothes on fire, she convinced herself that everyone had gotten out and was waiting for her at Cuddledown.
- When she got to Cuddledown, they obviously weren't there, so she ran back to Clairmont to try to save them.
- It was too late, of course.