"You see all," she replied. "If we had more, we should have no time to enjoy them."
"Rather a sorry prospect if one is to take herself into consideration at all. Is there a bath-room that we can use? To take a bath would be really refreshing, and help me to sleep to-night, I am so tired."
"I am tired all of the time, and there is no chance to rest. We must rise at four in the morning, and be on the spring every moment till eight in the evening; you will be on duty till nine, because you receive the keys at that hour."
"Every day?"
"Every day!"
"There is usually a Relief Matron in such institutions, so that the other Matrons can have rest."
"There used to be one here; but, instead of that, there is an Assistant Matron in the shop."
"Then the Shop Matron has all of the relief, and the others none. Why is that?"
"They want to get as much work done in the shop as possible, to support the institution, the Master says. When I get tired, and feel like grumbling, I tell them it is money taken out of our flesh and blood to make the institution rich."
"It is probably the way the Master takes to recommend himself to the Board of Directors. They like him for his thrift in managing."