ho are your people?
? tout man urned and oed my . ill you tell me, I said to ie? Sir? Please, sir?
Be quiet! .
t be familiar, son.
? I said. No.
I srees are all in leaf.
I dont kno knohem.
ho are your people?
tout man urned and folded no it droop.
My people are thieves, I said miserably.
Ohe ladies made faces. Queer girl. . .
the woman beside me, however, beckoned me close.
Your property gone? soo. But see sring, around , and ed stones. al, sy. Sucked toucers aken t. t his, however! Oh, no!
I spoke to no-one, after t. ook us to a garden and made us it for an e: te you could see ts bars to t of t t in. trees to t park e of t. I ree in my life, but be? If I mig to a freedom.
If Mrs Sucksby didnt come first.
But till supposed, too, t I sie. I meant to s taken back to to sit, until tea-time, in a great grey room t smelt of leaking gas, t t—still tcill sing—and said not tty—did: I washed my face
and tand, eet my eful tartan goidy -go to tea and gave me a basin of it, I took it, but did not drink it. I tipped it on t no-one steamed for a second, t my foot on tipped it. I looked up, and saty ching.
Made a mess, she said loudly. She had a voice like a mans. Bad girl.
Bad girl? said Nurse Bacon, turning round. I knoo your bed. Quick! quick! all of you. God bless me, w a life!
So be quiet, o lie still. If , t first nigurned and trembled. Stop moving!
S up, reading, and t of er doo a ligill burning, so sirred in t; and t straigo sleep and started snoring. han ever.
Sook o bed about her neck.
I lay e glove in my fist, and no tip of one of its fingers to my mout ; and I bit and bit.
But I slept, at last; and ors came back on th Nurse Spiller, I was ready.
Mrs Rivers, ie, after ty a minute looking over Mrs Price and Miss ilson.
I am perfectly clear in my head, I said.
ch. Splendid