Sadie had her hand clapped to her cheek as though she had toothache.

Hans's face was screwed up in the effort to understand.

Only Godber's man seemed to be enjoying himself; it was his story.
"What's the matter?
What's happened ?" "There's been a horrible accident," said Cook.

"A man killed." "A man killed! Where?
How?
When ?" But Godber's man wasn't going to have his story snatched from under his very nose.
"Know those little cottages just below here, miss ?" Know them?
Of course, she knew them.

"Well, there's a young chap living there, name of Scott, a carter.