"It gets worse..." she whispered. "The neighbors saw through my window as he sat with me. Then they all began to talk, and it wasn't him they called shameless, but me. 'Jezebel,' isn't a pretty name to be called. Tis why I left me home. Now I work fer a man who is so like me husband it hurts, but I stay to meself. I'm frightened to get to know me neighbors and possibly find out that word spread to them too."