Another very tall woman. Ruth was impressed. Maybe women here tended to be taller than in the continent. Maybe she had just been lucky. The woman was also very beautiful, but this, she had noticed in Whitby in general. Perhaps it was the fact that the ladies just looked different on the island.

Ruth nodded, getting closer to the jewels and trying to sneakily get her wrist close to them, in a way that wasn’t too overt. She wondered if they would look good on her current shirt. Ruth shook her head.

“Not at all, she has a beautiful voice, though she is pushing herself too hard on the notes, trying a different register might help her with achieving a better result,” she said casually, eyeing Bess as if that was the owed sort of polite conversation.