15,688. Are you sure you never got a penny for selling any other article for a woman?-I have got many a penny at different times, but not in that exact way.
15,689. What else do you do for your living?-I live very meanly.
15,690. But do you never get any more than a penny for doing an errand now and then?-I have no idea of doing errands only for my living.
15,691. Is there anything else by which you make a living, except by going errands?-I am not going errands for ever. I sometimes sit and knit a stocking in my own room; that is all I do.
15,692. Do you sell your stockings?-No; they are just for myself.
15,693. Then they will not make it living for you?-No; but perhaps some of my friends might lift a hand to help me.
15,694. Do you live on charity?-Not altogether on charity.
15,695. You do run an errand for a penny now and then?-No, not I.
15,696. Why are you reluctant to tell me the truth?-I am not denying the truth.
15,697. You are not willing to answer my questions: why is that?-I have answered them so far as I know, and as far as I am able. I have no more to say than I have told you, and I have told you all the truth.