And if you're quick and handy -- and I'm sure you are--you'll have plenty of time in the afternoon for plain sewing and darning.

I shall see how you can darn," Mrs.Lessways added encouragingly.
"Yes, mum." Hilda's heart revolted, less against her mother's defects as an organizer than against the odious mess of the whole business of domesticity.

She knew that, with her mother in the house, Florrie would never get to bed at half-past eight and very seldom at nine, and that she would never be free in the afternoons.

She knew that if her mother would only consent to sit still and not interfere, the housework could be accomplished with half the labour that at present went to it.

There were three women in the place, or at any rate, a woman, a young woman, and a girl--and in theory the main preoccupation of all of them was this business of domesticity.