Abilene could tell her compliment had hit Rose in a way she hadn't meant and she blushed, about to apologize or something of the like, but then Rose changed the topic and she forced a smile back onto her face. "I saved up and bought a place, a little cottage, downtown," she said and pointed over the hills to her left. "Over there, near the row of inns but not quite on the same street." Her smile quirked up on one side. "Grandmother said it was folly of me to buy a place all by my lonesome, but I don't think she realized I like my independence." She shrugged. "More or less."