"You've seen his flat," she says, gesturing vaguely. "Certainly far more posh'n I'll ever be." She even lets her Cockney accent flair up a little, though she usually did her best to keep it hidden.

Okay, so she had a really great place to live right now, but she knew that was only temporary. Any day now, what she'd built up would be lost. Things didn't ever stay good in her life for long, and she'd be back on the streets in more ways than one.