"If we had some clever engineers, it would be quite easy, I think," Peggy says, thinking of Dernier and of Falsworth and the ingenuity of the two men that she's sure could accomplish anything, given the challenge. When the war had ended, she missed the boys' company, of course, but at least she could still visit and even work with them on missions. Here? Here, she has people, but they're not her Howling Commandos. "Perhaps we can all band together and figure something out. Wouldn't it be lovely to be able to get the water from the springs to our homes?" At least, to figure out the plumbing situation and make it more reliable.

She's not forgetting her first house and how backed up it had become, in a rather dire way.