“Yes.”
“They’ll turn from you when you’re struggling to the utmost to help yourself, going on ill, left with four young children, your husband cut off and not a penny.”
“Yes.”
“I agree with her there. I owe all I have, under Providence, to my own hands and the help coming from strangers I had no claim on. But why doesn’t she act open? That’s what I say and I know it. There’s always those ready to help you if you’ll do your part. It’s all take and no give with some.”
“Vampires. People are extraordinary.”
“You’d say so if you had this house to manage.”
“I suppose so.”
“You get your eyes open. With one and another.”
“I’d no idea she’d even been talking to the Hurds.”
“Talk? Well I don’t mind telling you now she’s gone.”