Anne hated laundry day usually, but she hated it even more now that Alice was gone. Her body was sore from heaving heavy wet clothes all by herself, and hands burned from endless rubbing and putting them in hot water, only to expose them to the cold air the next moment. Right now, she was heaving a bucket back into the house, when she spotted a woman she didn't know, and who didn't look like she belonged here. Anne stopped and stared, and soon noticed that she was pregnant, and far along too. She started when the woman suddenly addressed her, and accidentally spilled some water. She would have blushed if she wasn't already a kind of blotted red and pink from the exercise. "Are you alright, ma'm?"