How can I spend a month here ?" She thought that she would peep round the house.

Yet she feared that she should be considered as intruding into things which she had better not meddle with.

But the screams became so fearful that she could no longer restrain herself.

She rushed round the corner of the house, and came full against a black woman rinsing some fustian clothes in a tub near the rain-spout.

"Do dear tell me," said she, "what they are doing to those people.