And Mondays and Wednesdays and Fridays I come here. But to-day, of
course, is a half-day, because of yesterday's Bank Holiday.

BARTHWICK. I see; four days a week, and you get half a crown a day,
is that it?

MRS. JONES. Yes, sir, and my dinner; but sometimes it's only half
a day, and that's eighteen pence.

BARTHWICK. And when your husband earns anything he spends it in
drink, I suppose?

MRS. JONES. Sometimes he does, sir, and sometimes he gives it to me
for the children. Of course he would work if he could get it, sir,
but it seems there are a great many people out of work.

BARTHWICK. Ah! Yes. We--er--won't go into that.
[Sympathetically.] And how about your work here? Do you find it
hard?

MRS. JONES. Oh! no, sir, not very hard, sir; except of course,
when I don't get my sleep at night.

BARTHWICK. Ah! And you help do all the rooms? And sometimes, I
suppose, you go out for cook?

MRS. JONES. Yes, Sir.

BARTHWICK. And you 've been out this morning?