[ like my sister arya, sansa thinks. how is she now, her sister? does she still remember her, if she yet lives? ]

Eight years between you — that's quite a gap. And your mother, she yet lived at the time? —No, I'm sorry, that was indelicate of me to ask.

[ her own mother married fairly young, and gave birth not long after. father took to his duty with—— perhaps not enthusiasm, but with willingness. ]