<strong>Cooper and Jessica</strong><br/><br/>A lad of maybe twelve or thirteen passed through the room his hands were dirty as was he, he had the smell of the stables about him. “Sir ….Miss…” he paused then and looked at the stew. Licking his lips a little. “Mind if I grab some for mesen  and some for Mister Richard?” Mister Richard Cotton was the stable master a large bear of a man but certainly generous enough to those few that worked under him. He spent most of his time in the stables, even sleeping there. “The ‘oss’s are right twitchy tonight…worse than usual…” with that he was out of the room.<br/><br/><strong>The kitchen</strong><br/><br/>The lad walked through the kitchen blushing a little as he passed on of the younger maids. She blushed too in between continuing the gossip about what was going on upstairs. There was still a good deal of talking about that thing upstairs, and about the ill mistress….However when they found out<em> that</em>American had arrived with his daughter that caused another stir. Apparently she got the pox after working in a hospital…imagine all that money and she works in a hospital…the consensus  from most of them was she should be locked up for insanity. After all the woman would want for nothing.<br/>