"You do. And work is wonderfully easy to find. It's great."

She blinks at him, eyes a bit wide. "What? Oh, golly, no. I'm just...independent. And highly cheap. Highly, highly cheap. Why should I pay for what I can procure on my own?"

And do you have any idea how awkward it is to buy all that bone in a butcher shop? You can only make so much soup in a week.