When she wants anything, you jump and get it.

Go on, now." They scattered grinning, all but the bent and grizzled old woman Sally, who now came forward.

She looked with blank brown eyes at the new-comer, herself inscrutable as the Sphinx.

If she commented mentally on the droop of the young woman's mouth and eyes, at least she said nothing.

It was not her place to ask what white folk did, or why.