"I've been busy," says Amy, "by Milliways terms. I spend a great deal of time in the stables, working with my horse, and I've a job in the House of Arch, looking after Ingress and Gavroche in the afternoons, and giving Ingress princess lessons, which are mostly dressing up and dancing. She's having a ball, for her birthday, in a little over a week, you see.

"You should come. To the ball, I mean. If you're here and you'd like to."

It's light and breezy and cheery -- a slightly edited version of Amy's life these days.

"And how are you?"