Ruth tensed a little when the woman came over to help, but she let her. Men had undressed her, sometimes gentle, sometimes rough, but she had no recollection of a woman ever helping her undress. Even as a child, she thought, she had to have done it alone, for she certainly had no memory of her mother ever helping her. "Five?" she asked, unlacing her corset. "I didn't know children were allowed to work that young. I -," She shut up. The maid didn't need to know that Ruth herself had worked as a maid.