...I'm not sure I would use her as a metric for the fact that people can change—she's been the sweetest sort of person since day one, her prejudices and short-sightedness notwithstanding; I was genuinely a bit surprised when she shrank away from the protagonist in the first place. She hadn't seemed to be just a fair-weather sort of friend.
Anyway, I'm glad they've made up. Maybe cried a bit.