"You're not the last, though. Monsieur Casimir is late also. I can see him coming now."
As Theodore went towards the offices his cousin Casimir came up hurriedly.
The two cousins were not at all alike, either in their looks or ways. Casimir gave the foreman a short nod, but did not say a word.
"What can your friend do?" asked Talouel, turning to Rosalie, his hands still in his pockets.
Perrine herself replied to this question.
"I have not worked in a factory before," she said in a voice that she tried to control.
Talouel gave her a sharp look, then turned again to Rosalie.
"Tell Oneux to put her with the trucks. Now be off. Hurry up!"
Thus dismissed, Rosalie hurried Perrine away.
"What are the trucks?" asked little Perrine as she followed her friend through the big courtyard. She wondered, poor child, if she had the strength and the intelligence to do what was required of her.