The night is growing clearer and colder every
minute.
Some of the women asked her outright what agirl of
her class was doing seeking work as a servant. Swallers er tea and thenjacks off
without so much as a thank you. GINGER: Well, Im off for the fiddlede-dee. Do it for
a perishing fag along towardsmorning. MRS BENDIGO: Well, you aint a bloody baby, are
you? God, aint that a bloody dungeon to put you in!
No, I dont think so, said Dorothy, privately a
little astonishedat the question.
Praps I wont bash isnavel in when I get a old of
im!
Ow bout that perishing toff as Isee you get off
with just now?
The sub-world into which she was descending
seemedless terrible now that it was nearer.
She suffered, but she was notgreatly afraid. You
dont stand no chance with that lotagainst you. Ive had somevit when me and Michael
was on de toby.
If dat boy dont come soon widde tea me insidesll
dry up like a bloody kippered herring.
In the morning sheread the Barbers Record, and in
the afternoon Cage Birds.
How can you go on likethis, night after night, year
after year?
No, I dont think so, said Dorothy, privately a
little astonishedat the question.
Do it for a perishing fag along towardsmorning. MRS
MCELLIGOT: Michael an me skippered in a pigsty once. How longve you bin on the road,
you ignorant young scut? To turn a woman out of doorson a night like bloody this!
THE KIKE: She aint half got the crabs on her, too.
Ill mash im to bloody shinof beef, I will. Even Mrs
Wayne joinsin after a moment, laughing in spite of herself. To turn a woman out of
doorson a night like bloody this!
My Lift up your Hearts was renowned throughoutthe
diocese. MRS MCELLIGOT: Youve took your time, aint you, young man?