"My lady?" Abby asks. When the woman enters her rooms her 'maid' can't help but surge up from the embroidery she was working on. Carolina crying means something is happening, probably information she can send back home. But caring comes with that. Make them believe, and do that by letting yourself believe it for a time. So she moves forward and when she sees the moisture in her eyes, she produces a lightly embroidered kerchief from her sleeve to dry them away.

"Oh my lady, what is wrong?"