“An' wheer do you reckon she's from, then?”

“I don't know. They do say as she hails fra th' Pole. I don't know,” Tilly hastened to add, knowing he would attack her.

“Fra th' Pole, why do you hail fra th' Pole? Who set up that menagerie confabulation?”

“That's what they say — I don't know — — ”

“Who says?”

“Mrs. Bentley says as she's fra th' Pole — else she is a Pole, or summat.”

Tilly was only afraid she was landing herself deeper now.

“Who says she's a Pole?”

“They all say so.”