Paderau gives a wry smile in return. She's pretty casual and friendly with everyone, although not everyone that she makes the offer to returns it in kind. Society did that to people, and Paddy was pretty okay with being a bit detached from it.

"Or got someone looking out for them, I'm proud they've been lookin' after each other."

Plenty of the girls still bitched themselves hoarse, but they stood together, in the end, even the most frigid of them.