Well, why shouldn't you do it instead?
There it is, the farm, and there am I a woman alone.

I need help.

I've got no head.
I have to work at a sum of figures all night to get it straight....

Ah, m'sieu', it is a need both sides! You want someone to look after you; you want a chance again to do things; but you want someone to look after you, and it is all waiting there on the farm.

Palass Poucette left behind him seven sound horses, and cows and sheep, and a threshing-machine and a fanning-mill, and no debts, and two thousand dollars in the bank.