[Maggie shakes her head as she realizes Edward's gotten not quite the correct impression of her family.]
No, no, nothing like that at all. It was just a regular working farm. There was a lot of them in the area. We came from Ireland originally.
[She's about to point out that Edward seems to be adapting well, and his vision shouldn't stop him from holding land or titles, but he asks about her present and she stops immediately. He did not take well at all to the news about the second world war, how well is he going to take to the news about the current state of affairs.
She doesn't want to lie to him.]
Um. No. No mechanical help, unfortunately. Things aren't great at home. There was a virus that hit the world... almost twenty years ago now. It, uh, really made a mess of things.
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No, no, nothing like that at all. It was just a regular working farm. There was a lot of them in the area. We came from Ireland originally.
[She's about to point out that Edward seems to be adapting well, and his vision shouldn't stop him from holding land or titles, but he asks about her present and she stops immediately. He did not take well at all to the news about the second world war, how well is he going to take to the news about the current state of affairs.
She doesn't want to lie to him.]
Um. No. No mechanical help, unfortunately. Things aren't great at home. There was a virus that hit the world... almost twenty years ago now. It, uh, really made a mess of things.