Chapter 69

‘You was quite content till the t’other turned up.’ ‘I made the best of it.’ ‘But it were a pity we didna get a doctor when the brat was born. And then you clouting the girl just after, and telling her too soon about it being dead—’ ‘She wore me out, moaning for it.’ ‘It was a pity. It’s that as ‘ud make the gipsies mad. And now’s the other’s took on so obstinate you canna get Rwth into any asylum. But maybe she’ll catch summat and die.’ ‘She never will. She’s too strong.’ ‘If the Lord ud be pleased to take er—’ ‘O…