"You might be grouchy but you have cause to be... You and I are... Alike in some ways." It did not register for her that he spoke of the arrest. Not at first.

When it did register, she still said nothing of it. It needed time for her to think on it. She bit her lip for a moment, "If I have all of my family's money and property... That means I can possibly arrange for my factory to import more to England. I... I don't think I can go back for now. Things have been so hard to figure out."