"Thank you, Miss. Ellie's very dear to me. It warms my 'eart that she has found an employer who'll take care of 'er. Ellie, you look very pretty in that dress. Would ye two like some pie?"

Ellie sighed. It was like a weight had been lifted from her shoulders. She whispered to Christine. "We're fine, Miss. Pie is good." Missus Russell's baked goods were known in the Cragg and beyond.