"I forgot your question about the bath-room. There is none, that I know of, for the officers' use. There is one in the house for the Master's family. I don't know whether the Matrons that lodge there are allowed to use it."
"Then some of the Matrons are lodged comfortably in the house. Why is that distinction made?"
"I don't know. There are bathing-tubs, for the prisoners, in my wash-house. I never use them; but if you wish to, you can. They are scrubbed out clean."
"I must be up from four A. M., 'till nine P. M. That makes seventeen hours of labor."
"Sometimes you will be required to sit up one, two, or three hours later."
"Why?"
"The Master's wife or daughters may have company, and keep the women up-stairs. We have to sit up and wait for them to come in, so as to lock them up."
"And be up all the same at four next morning?"
"Yes."
"Do the Master's wife and daughters get up at four the next morning, after sitting up so late, and go to work?"