"You're new in town, aren't you?" His questions certainly imply it. "Honestly, I'm not sure. But she was all too eager to get Abigail exiled from London." So here they are, mostly without a Maiden, and soon to be without a Mother.

Hopefully Sylvia doesn't want to take up the title of Crone.

Though, honestly, that would be pretty great.

"But the title is still Abby's, even if she's not here." As far as Nancy was concerned, anyway.