"The hag calls herself Madame Mandilip. The gal's her niece. Or so she says. They rode in about eight
months since. Nobody knows where from. Pay their bills regular. Seem to have plenty of money. Niece
does all the marketing. The old woman never goes out. Keep to themselves like a pair of clams. Have
strictly nothing to do with the neighbors. The hag has a bunch of special customers-rich-looking people
many of them. Does two kinds of trade, it looks-regular dolls, an' what goes with 'em, an' special dolls
which they say the old woman's a wonder at. Neighbors ain't a bit fond of 'em. Some of 'em think she's
handling dope. That's all yet."
Special dolls? Rich people?
Rich people like the spinster Bailey, the banker Marshall?
Regular dolls-for people like the acrobat, the bricklayer? But these might have been "special" too, in