Quote Originally Posted by Dark Dragon View Post
It can then be argue that she made the practical choice by ensuring that the two of them will have shelter, food and clothing while giving up an abstract idea like freedom.
It would be quite an insult to all normally hired servants to suggest they lost their freedom by getting employed. It's a vastly different thing compared to a serf forced to serve in the landlord's manor, for example. It's just a job like any other. They are escaped serfs, that is, outlaws, who were offered respectable work on a silver platter.