“Would you mind?” it was an odd request, she knew. And Whitby could be rather conservative. But Bess did not seem annoyed.

Ruth nodded “And a composer,” something that had required quite a lot of studying back in the day. She was very proud of it, so she was going to share it at any given occasion. She briefly considered. Would she want to do this? It might be a bad choice. But at some point, Zechariah would start to notice how uncharateristically codependent her finances were, to put it mildly. “And a music teacher.”