Quentin accepts the bottle and eyed it thoughtfully. His gaze then flicks to the doctor as he hands the man five shillings without a word. He was not prone to dressing people down more than once but his displeasure at the man was still quite obvious. He elects not to speak again until he takes Noah outside and he address the boy once again.

"I assume if your parents find out you have a bottle of pills to dull pain they will take it from you."

He says it flatly. He was not unused to how cruel the world could be, he'd been a soldier and had seen far worse, but that did not mean he enjoyed it. The town of Whitby suddenly seemed less... endearing now that he saw how they treated their poor.