"Oh no, I didn't mean I've worked here that long. My mother and father brought me here and we live in one of the cottages close by. I started working here when I was a girl, but I was more into my teens." She had a pleasant sort of laugh. Her touch wad gentle and practiced in regard to helping her new mistress undress. The disgust she felt for the situation was likely because Ruth wasn't much older, if at all, than Pearl. But it wasn't Ruth's fault for the position she was being put into, it was Magnus' doing. She finished unfastening the pieces and parts to the gown efficiently, and without a hint of inappropriate action, she had Ruth in her underthings in little time at all.

"You've got new underthings too, Miss Ruth," she said, "The master has seen to getting you set up with a small wardrobe to start so you can pick things as you see fit. Your allowance that you'll be given on top of... the other things," she cleared her throat and flushed a little, "Well, you won't want for anything 'tall."