At Christmas time people bought them for decorations; sometimes people gave the girl coppers, but did not take the flowers from her.

The police watched them very closely, as they required a licence for selling, and if they took the girl out in the wet or dark the police charged them.
It was very difficult to live at all, owing to police interference.

The girl did not go to school, but they had been warned that she must go; they did not know what they should do when she could not help them.
Room 3.

A strong man about thirty, his wife and two young children.

The remains of a meal upon the table, a jug of beer and a smell of tobacco.
The man looks at us, and a flash of recognition is exchanged.