"Oh goodness, we must all seem such boring peasants to you after London!" Rose said, but she grinned. "I'm well, and so is me family." Well that wasn't true. Rose was miserable and as for her family: since Abilene had left, the two oldest sons and her mother had died, along with an infant sister, another sister had fallen pregnant and been shoved into some quickly patched up marriage, and who knew what disasters lay just around the corner. But she wouldn't disturb Abilene with that. "I'm in domestic service now... What about you?"