And when she died, and Martha came back here to us, the Madeley family came here as well, 'cause the father got some kind of work.

But he couldn't keep it, and he went off I don't know where, and Eve had the children to keep and look after.

We used to do what we could to help her, but it was a cruel life for a poor thing of her age--just when she ought to have been enjoying her life, as you may say." Hilliard's interest waxed.
"Then," pursued Mrs.Brewer, "the next sister to Eve, Laura her name was, went to Birmingham, into a sweetstuff shop, and that was the last ever seen or heard of her.

She wasn't a girl to be depended upon, and I never thought she'd come to good, and whether she's alive or dead there's no knowing.

Eve took it to heart, that she did.