Angie's face filled with mirth. "My guess would be that your sister is much younger than my older years. Of course, you have the advantage of knowing us both. I, on the other hand, can only surmise what I can from the fact that I know I have reached the age where I should have been married off and churning out my second child by now," she remarked. "However, my mother is rather," she paused, searching for the best word that would describe her mother in her current condition, "preoccupied," she finally settled on, "at the moment. With matters." Of the state! "But I may be wrong," she said, borrowing his words with merriment.