She was more concerned about the tangled fish wires and the damaged sleeve than she was about the cut in her arm. It was hardly the first time she had cut herself on a fishing hook. Yet she sat still as he ordered and merely shrunk a little when he approached. She held out her arm and only then realized that it was bleeding quite heavily. Another way in which she was soiling the carpet.

"Please, never mind that, ser... milord, I shouldn't 'ave come." Yet she dared not move.