She grants Lee a polite smile, realizing just then that she must have disturbed his sleep, though she doesn't think to apologize either. Turning her attention to the sleeping girl, she busies herself with tucking those dark curls away from her face, watching intently.

"Perhaps I should have brought her a dress instead. I told her once that she looks most lovely in blue," but by now she's only pandering. It was two years for her. Two years spent back home only to find herself back here. It's hard to say whether this is a similar case.

"When do you suppose she will wake?"