"You know...I think I envy you. You and your gumption."

But it would make it all the more sorrowful when she saw him lose it or else be sent home before he lost it. And it was worse, she thought, for how much she already dreaded him being sent home.

"Well. I'd better leave you to your curtains. Unless I grow a few more inches in the next ten seconds, I won't be much help."