Alice. It was she resurfaced after being trapped under water, and could suddenly breathe and take in the world around her. He saw her as Alice. Jenny refused to call her by her own name. To everyone in the village she was Mrs. Appleton too, a constant reminder of the man she belonged to. She had suddenly forgiven Mr. Meijer's earlier bullying.

With a smile on her face, she pressed the keys again and again as he instructed, so focused on them that she didn't notice when he pulled away. It took her a three times to get the rhythm right, but then she continued at the right speed, before moving her fingers down to try another set of keys, hesitantly looking for the next chord.