"Pony..." she said in that voice that meant he was getting on her nerves again. "I'll be fine, stop yer fussin. I will likely be too tired before the sun even dips toward the horizon. I appreciate that ye wanna help, I do... but I'm a woman grown and managed to take care of myself all these months without a man..." She pointed this out. "I am not sayin' I don't want yer help, just that I can't sit here and act helpless. I can't... let ye do all of the work. I have ta do it too. When my mind is idle, I start ta think too much about him and... I don't want to anymore. It hurts too much."