"There ain't; but I don't earn any money for them either."
There was retaliation with calculation.
"Callahan, I turned the key on you in solitary, and kept you there,—why are you not angry with me?"
"You didn't do it out of spite—you never did me any wrong. If they only punished me when I deserved it, I shouldn't be mad."
I did not know how to reprove the woman. "Callahan, be as good a woman in the shop as you are with me."
"I'll try to; but they wake up the devil in me. I wish you would get me into the kitchen."
X.
AN ARRIVAL.
The windows of the kitchen were of ground glass. They were made to let down at the top, but could not be raised at the bottom.
When they were let down, I noticed that the younger women, if I were out of the way a moment, sprang upon the window-seat, which was a deep recess, and stood looking out. I inferred from the manner of doing it, and the apprehensive look they gave me, when detected, that it was breaking the rules to do so.