"Have you given up your house?" he asked, when he could speak.
"Long ago. No use my staying there alone. Besides, I could not afford it."
"Francie not much good to you, I suppose?"
"Oh, I don't want her to be good to me."
"Keziah Moon hasn't deserted you, of course?"
"Oh, Keziah—she was moped to death, poor old woman—I found her a nuisance. And then those babies of Rose's were so irresistible. I thought she'd better go. As Rose's head-nurse, I believe she is in her element."
"Is Rose happy with her draper?"
"I don't know—I suppose so."
"You don't see much of her?"
"Not much."