![]() ![]() What Matilda sees is that there is much suffering in the everyday world and that there is much that she can do to help, besides offering up prayers to the saints that is. Peg herself is a generous big hearted woman who does her best to teach Matilda and to open the girls eyes to what happens in the real world around her. In spite of herself though, Matilda begins to learn the bonesetters craft from Peg. Surely Father Leufredus will come and rescue her from this place soon. There is no doubt that this is a dreadful mistake. Why she is going to have to sweep floors, make fires and cook food, tasks that servants did in her old home. Matilda is appalled when she meets Peg and realizes what her jobs are to be. Why is she, a literate God-fearing girl, being given the task of assisting a bonesetter when she should be spending her time doing something more enriching and useful. ![]() When Father Leufredus leaves Matilda at the shop of Peg the Bonesetter in Blood and Bone Alley, Matilda can hardly believe what is happening to her. ![]()
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