Rose looked at him with compassion. Was she this lucky? To find someone who was not only handsome, but also good, who was actually interested in her? "Oh, there's not much to tell about me," she said when he asked about her. There was, but she would rather not tell. "I come from a fishing family. Was fortunate to grow up with both me parents, though me mother passed away a few years ago. Then when I was sixteen I entered domestic service, to help out me family, first in York, and now here in Whitby."