"No, and it will be hard on her." Ben admitted quietly. "She's never been away from home, and she and Anne are very close. And in so many ways, she is still but a child." He stared down at his forgotten tea without seeing it. "I don't like it at all..." he admitted. "But with time, she will adapt, and once t' bairn is born she will have som't to bestow her affection on. T' bairn will bind them together."