"Stop a moment," said the contractor; "what did you come here for?"
"For work," with a motion of the hands, deprecating the question as unnecessary.
"You want it?"
"Else I should not be here."
It by no means displeased the contractor that this woman, suing to him for work, should unconsciously have adopted in her last reply an air of haughtiness.
"You want work badly, I infer?"
"I want it badly."
"You have applied elsewhere?"
"I have."
"Unsuccessfully?"