“Nor bothered?”
“No.”
“Nor hungry?” (Hunger was to M’liss a sickness that might attack a person at any moment.)
“No.”
“Nor thinking of her?”
“Of whom, Lissy?”
“That white girl.” (This was the latest epithet invented by M’liss, who was a very dark brunette, to express Clytemnestra.)
“No.”
“Upon your word?” (A substitute for “Hope you’ll die!” proposed by the master.)
“Yes.”