"It absolutely is!" Rose said. She too took an oatcake. "Well, look at us! Both moved out of the home and looking after ourselves!" As if domestic service was a great life, and not the daily living hell she was desperate to escape. She felt sorry for Alice having to marry a stranger, but if Tobias had asked her, she would have flung herself at him in a whim if that meant she could quit her job. But she preferred to portray it as 'looking after herself'. She nibbled on the oatcake.