“I don’t want to take on anyone else until that first batch of shoes have been sold,” said Jean. “If Mrs. Dawson comes in again, tell her that we’ll let her know about the kid after the wet. I’d like to have her if I can. I don’t think we want the other one, do we?”
“I don’t think so. Bit of a slut, she was.”
They talked about the details of the business for an hour. “We haven’t got the overalls back yet,” said Aggie. “I went and saw Mrs. Harrison, but her back’s bad again. We’ll have to find someone else.” They issued the girls with a clean overall each week to work in, and the washing of these overalls was something of a problem to them.
“What we want,” said Jean, “is one of those Home Laundry things, and do them ourselves. We could run it off the generating set.... Of course, it need
