"Not with you poking at me back! I makes me living on that, I does." Nell rounded on him, finally rebelling at the way he kept prodding at her, as if she was an animal he was trying to herd to market.
"I'll show you, but let a woman walk like a civilized person. I ain't no criminal," she told him loftily, even if that last statement wasn't strictly true.
The stake had been set up in an open square, she recalled somewhere the muddle of her thoughts. There were several such in the neighborhood they were headed toward. Maybe she'd remember when they arrived.