It's for the Lord Protector and all the soldiers who work at the castle. There are lots of women workin' in the scullery already, but they're all older than me. And doin' scullery work is all they've ever done.

[She remembers the head scullery maid saying that she was younger than Robyn was when she started work. Sometimes Robyn finds herself thinking how that's how she could end up if she continued to work there--keeping your head down and doing as you're told, but still being quietly stifled.]

But that's no life for me. There's no way I could keep doin' that every day.