... Five, I was five I suppose before I had to start — taking up m' duties.

[ She swallows down her next mouthful hazily. ]

I liked... liked collecting flowers and... making crowns to weave them. And... and I would want to follow m' brothers everywhere. Only — they had lessons and I did not so — they would hide me in the room so I could listen — and then after they would — read to me. I lik'd being read to.