‘Try not to be too concerned,’ Sophy told him. ‘I feel perfectly easy about it, myself.’
Balligumph eyed her severely. ‘Aye, but bein’ none too concerned about things is your way, Miss Sophy—even when ye ought to be thinkin’ differently.’
It wasn’t the first time that Balli had alluded to the difficulties of her situation, and Sophy knew he was right. But she saw no merit in worrying about troubles she had no power to change. If trouble came, then she would worry about how to solve it. In the meantime, the only way she knew to get from one day to the next was to fret as little as possible, and take pleasure in the good things she did possess.
‘All will be well,’ she said to Balligumph. ‘I feel it in my heart!’
‘That heart o’ yours is a mighty powerful piece o’ magic, then,’ he told her
