I'd got something to do, without thinking, indeed! She kept me to it (as well as he) when she could go about, and she could go about then.' 'Well ?' 'Well ?' echoed Mrs Flintwinch.

'That's what I said myself.

Well! What's the use of considering?
If them two clever ones have made up their minds to it, what's left for me to do?
Nothing.' 'Was it my mother's project, then ?' 'The Lord bless you, Arthur, and forgive me the wish!' cried Affery, speaking always in a low tone.

'If they hadn't been both of a mind in it, how could it ever have been?
Jeremiah never courted me; t'ant likely that he would, after living in the house with me and ordering me about for as many years as he'd done.

He said to me one day, he said, "Affery," he said, "now I am going to tell you something.