Simon drank. "Aye... but it will be hard on the family for a while, without me, until I can get a decent job in York. Will is gonna hate me, because he'll have to take over all of my tasks, and he's only ten, he ain't as strong. And Rose will be the eldest at home... She tried to stop me, last time I wanted to go... I wonder... maybe I should wait." And yet he knew that was no longer an option. Things had been getting worse and worse.