Javert looked at Reira like she had suddenly sprouted an extra head, which was not altogether much more severely than he'd been looking at her.

"A laundress. Washer-woman. Clothes-cleaner. A woman who launders," Javert prompted flatly, grasping each alternative definition of the word laundress that came to mind. "I still have some scant coin in my pocket, surely that can cover a good wash."