And this young girl wouldn't be amiss, we thought, for waitin' in the shop; the men likes to see a noo face, you know, mum, an' all the more if it's a good-looking 'un.

If she'd been a orn'ary lookin' girl, of course I couldn't have not so much as thought of it, as things was.

She told me plain an' straightforward as she couldn't say who she was and where she come from.

And it was something in her way o' speakin', a kind o' quietness like, as you don't hoften get in young girls nowadays.

They're so for'ard, as their parents ain't got the same 'old on 'em as they had when I was young.