‘What is it you know?’ Furlong asked. ‘There’s nothing, only what I’m telling you,’ she answered. ‘And in any case, what do such things have to do with us? Aren’t all our girls well, and minded?’ ‘Our girls?’ Furlong said. ‘What has any of this to do with ours?’ ‘Not one thing,’ she said. ‘What have we to answer for?’

