"He seemed quite happy to claim you when I spoke to him," Peggy says, a touch gentle and tender. She doesn't want to presume, but Jon had seemed quite open about the fact that he had been grateful for the chance to be with his brother. She does have to hide the quirk of a smile when he gestures to himself, already starting to get down into the muck herself in order to help. "Besides, is it really so strange? We're all of us in a terrible state," she teases him. "I assure you, I don't look like this normally."

She still takes great pains, obviously, to keep her hair in shape, but her nails and makeup have long gone the way of being useless. "I'm fairly sure that I would give anything for a day at the spa, right now."