She considered that a moment, "I am...a better stillmistress than cook, I cannot promise food fit for feast days, but to keep a person warm and well content, yes? Fancy work with sugars and stacked cakes are beyond me, I was too oft with Dame Rimia in the stillroom learning to take such lesson from Dame Gracia before her eyesight went." It was important that she not...misrepresent her ability before him?

She wasn't sure why but...it was.

"...I was not without leisure moments, lord. The Dames were kind, until there was the new Abbess."