So did the women notice this, and some of them began to cry.
I walked right behind my mother.

I had chosen this position so that she would not catch-sight of my scalps.

Behind me came the three Demdike sisters, two of them helping the old mother.

I could hear Lee calling all the time to the men who drove the wagons not to go so fast.

A man that one of the Demdike girls said must be Major Higbee sat on a horse watching us go by.