to speak to each other during the day. Each had her own tasks to perform, and any attempt at conversation would have been regarded as a tendency to loiter and lose time. “Don’t mind me, miss,” Becky whispered during the first morning, “if I don’t say nothin’ polite. Some un’d be down on us if I did. I MEANS `please’ an’ `thank you’ an’ `beg pardon,’ but I dassn’t to take time to say it.”
But before daybreak she used
to speak to each other during the day. Each had her own tasks to perform, and any attempt at conversation would have been regarded as a tendency to loiter and lose time. “Don’t mind me, miss,” Becky whispered during the first morning, “if I don’t say nothin’ polite. Some un’d be down on us if I did. I MEANS `please’ an’ `thank you’ an’ `beg pardon,’ but I dassn’t to take time to say it.”
But before daybreak she used
