He lives up here on the hill, in a poor cottage, and takes wages as a timekeeper at Robinson's when he ought to have been paying men of his own.

The drink--that's what it was.

When our Martha first knew them they were living at Walsall, and if it hadn't a' been for Eve they'd have had no home at all.

Martha got to know her at the Sunday-school; Eve used to teach a class.

That's seven or eight years ago; she was only a girl of sixteen, but she had the ways of a grown-up woman, and very lucky it was for them belonging to her.