[ she can't help but delve -- especially when she herself feels as though she's been made vulnerable. the very possibility, illusory or otherwise, that she'd depended on him for her livelihood render her stroppy.

she's doing her best to swallow the worst of it. trying to remind herself that it's not his fault -- wonderland did this. to him, to her, to the whole lot. ]

I noticed. But it wasn't as though I had many of my own.

[ -- truth is, she still doesn't. especially here. ]

Bit difficult to have much of a social life when your employer is a touch overbearing.

[ a rendezvous or three with a particular stagehand aside. ]