"What is is that women do in these 'modern' times?" Siggy asked. "Besides wear rude clothing and drink to excess. I would not marry. I do not know how these... ørendrjar conduct matters of rights and properties in such events."
Siggy had found that if she concentrated, she could speak her own language. She made the effort now, as Peggy was one of these strangers, these outsiders whose ways she did not know. Though she understood that this place was at least somewhat as strange to Peggy as it was to Siggy, it was still closer to what Peggy knew than to what Siggy knew.