"Well. I'm sorry for that, Mr Becket," Kate says, and for all her temper and previous unsheathed claws, this is genuine.

She's without her family: has been mostly without them for a couple years. But they are just a letter away. She can catch some trains. And there are friends in her show-troop, companions. She's not alone.

"I think a whole house would just make me feel... More alone. But people are different, I guess."