"But the curtains and pictures are not hung, nor the books in place.

Hast any schooling, little maid?
Canst read ?" Audrey flushed with pride that she could tell him that she was not ignorant; not like Barbara, who could not read the giant's name in the pilgrim book.
"The crossroads schoolmaster taught me," she explained.

"He has a scar in each hand, and is a very wicked man, but he knows more than the Commissary himself.

The minister, too, has a cupboard filled with books, and he buys the new ones as the ships bring them in.

When I have time, and Mistress Deborah will not let me go to the woods, I read.