“Ah, that was something,” Miss Honey said. “I was proud of that.” “Tell me,” Matilda said.
“Well,” Miss Honey said, “when I got my teacher's job, the aunt told me I owed her a lot of money.
I asked her why. She said, ‘Because I've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes!’
She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years.
‘I'll give you one pound a week pocket-money,’ she said. ‘But that's all you're going to get.’
She even arranged with the school authorities to have my salary paid directly into her own bank. She made me sign the paper.”
“You shouldn't have done that,” Matilda said. “Your salary was your chance of freedom.”
“I know, I know,” Miss Honey said. “But by then I had been her slave nearly all my life and I hadn't the courage or the guts to say no.
I was still petrified of her. She could still hurt me badly.”
“So how did you manage to escape?” Matilda asked. “Ah,” Miss Honey said, smiling for the first time,
“that was two years ago. It was my greatest triumph.” “Please tell me,” Matilda said.
I used to get up very early and go for walks while my aunt was still asleep,” Miss Honey said.
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