Penny heard voices in the other room. She had been folding her mistress's laundry, though she had never been ordered or even so much as told to do such a thing. Being busy made her feel better anyway.
She ducked into the room and saw Andromeda speaking to a woman she did not know. Without being told, she did what she considered her duty and disappeared again, coming back a moment later with two glasses of water to deliver to her mistress and the guest.