"No, just me. Smelled a little more like Lye than usual down there afterward- but there ain't anything scrubbed with it. Cuz it'd be bad for the wine. None of us know why it smells like that but sometimes it just do. So after that I keep...I try to eat less, you know. Pad my shirts and skirts so no one notices. Three times I been up to be 'sent off' and-" She swallows. "I dunno. I dunno if Susan left in the morning and I just missed her but other girls too. Sometimes there are carriages and they're off but they never visit- but most often? Nothing."
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