"I hope so, they will run out of things to give me to do, soon enough, and I think I shall go mad from boredom."

She doesn't suit well to being an idle woman, that much was plainly obvious, by taking up the first thing she was allowed to do with a eagerness that perhaps wasn't fitting for the work that it was. Which she turns back to, and perhaps she will ask Beth to sing, a little later on, to fill the time. But she cuts across the thought, and Lakshmi looks up again, frowning slightly. "I did?"