"Yes, I suppose," she says. "But at the same time, I quite like it. There are times yet when I must... change how I think so that I might understand how certain jobs are open to women now instead of just men, but I like t'do it."

She welcomes the challenge. Learning how to reframe her expectations of the world has been a pleasurable one in Darrow, not quite as it had been in Cornwall. At the time she'd had to find new ways to think about the rich folks and the poor ones, but this is something else. This is better.

"I been thinkin' perhaps I might take the GED," she says. "After the baby is born, of course."