"Does it really freeze in this hot room?"
"It ain't hot in here at night. Last winter it froze 'most every
night for a month. Mis' Cotter was boarding with me last winter, her
and her little girl both. She's the lady what rents the room between
the kitchen and the front room from me. She sews on carpets and the
place she works at is right far from here. She warn't well last
winter--some kind of misery is always on her--and she asked me to
board her so she wouldn't have to do no cooking before she goes away
in the morning and when she comes back at night."
"With a swift movement of her hand Mrs. Gibbons caught the little
girl, who, behind her back, was making ready to slip off the bed and
on the floor, but as she swung her again in place she kept up her
talking, and by neither rise nor fall was the monotone of her voice
broken.
"I had to get up at five so as to have breakfast in time, for I can't
get the room warm and the things cooked in less'n an hour, and she
has to leave here a little after six so as to take her little girl to
the nursery before she goes to her place, and they ain't noways close
together.
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