"I mean it," he said and shook her hands. A stabbing of attraction went through him at that and he suddenly wondered how Rose would take the news that he had a female apprentice. He didn't think it would be a bad thing, it wasn't as if he was going to abandon her for this new girl. Andrew had more sense than that, yet he wasn't blind to the attractiveness of the young miss. "Ye start in a week's time. That ought ta give ye time ta settle back into Whitby."