With the older ones, you mean? They've taken to life here, and business picks up with more pretty faces about. Worth their wages.

[She says it as if Bella ever seriously considered doing anything but sheltering the survivors, as if there was any recourse but to provide care and pay until they find better. The Empire's spare rooms are packed, but now she has seamstresses for costumes and even a few with a knack for entertainment. Not to mention servers, runners ... sneaks. Robert has been updated on their successes and trials, of course.

It was his help that made liberating them from the traffickers possible, and they've had months of cooperation in the aftermath to reconcile.]