She was a handsome woman, erect and broad, with a free and powerful step.

She smiled as she spoke to me.
"You may think that that's an over-handsome gown for such as us to be owning.

It was given to my man by the Duke of Radford.

That was before we were married, and he was an undergardener then.

The Duchess wouldn't let the Duke wear it, because it was so gay, and there wasn't none of the servants that would care to take it, for fear they'd be laughed at, until they offered it to John.