She gasped, "What the deuce, Pony?! I don't put me nose in your business the way ye do to me. I don't even know what ye're doing more than half the time because ye keep it to yerself. And do I ask? Nay. But here ye come and get angry with me and ye assume the worst of the situation and say mean things that aren't true because ye gotta stick YER nose into it." She almost forgot herself and raised her voice, but remembered the babes were asleep after she had nursed them. "Stop talking about me children now, they have nothing to do with this. They are innocent babes." The warning in her voice was approaching on mama bear, and very seriously at that.