"Of course not."
"If the wife is Head Matron, has she not her duties to do in the morning as well as we? And ought she not to see that the other officers are not worked like that? If she possesses the common feelings of humanity, she would provide some relief, if it were in her power."
"There is not much humanity in exercise here. We are all too hard worked to think of any one but ourselves."
"I should think that might be your case."
"I often tell them it is as much a House of Correction for the officers as the prisoners."
"Ten hours of labor is now considered a good day's work. To drag the convicts from sunrise to sunset only exhausts them. They do not get through with as much work as they would do in ten hours, and the intervening time given to rest."
"That has been an established rule here for fifty years or more."
"It is certainly a very antiquated idea, all of a half century old. I recollect hearing my grandfather say that people worked that way when he was a boy. But people's ideas have changed since that time, and the people of this generation consider such demands of labor very unreasonable."
"The only changes here have been to make things harder. They will put upon you all they can make you do."
If she had been telling the truth that was a plain, but correct statement of facts.