Anne sucked on her sweet, resisting the temptation to chew. She pressed it into her cheek so that she could talk. "I don't know, I was only a maid real short." She feared Ellie had heard gossip about how Anne had become the maid of an Earl, and then the next day was not anymore, how said Earl had visited the Cragg and there had been shouting in the Ward home and the man had left with a bashed up face and there had been more shouting. Nobody had asked her or her father about it, but Anne knew they had drawn their own conclusions. "But our Rose really hated bein' a maid. Her employer was a nasty man, I think." At least Alice had told her that.