Night turned into day, and the siblings didn't awake until a plump unpleasant woman pulled them both out of bed, screeching that it was indecent for siblings to be sleeping in the same bed in the teenage years they were at. Taken outside, the siblings were whipped with a switch they had picked themselves until they promised to never do it again, although they would never admit they most certainly would. Tom had so wanted to burn the matron's fingers off for touching his sister, but she stayed his hand, knowing that while scaring the other children was just fine, the woman who made sure they were fed as little as they were was not.