"It will be just in your line.

You might run it over after breakfast," he continued, in high good-humor, "and put in the stops and grammar and spelling--you're more up in that sort of thing than I am--and then we will go through it together." Hester was quite accustomed, when her help was asked as to a composition, to receive as a reason for the request the extremely gratifying assurance that she was "good" at punctuation and spelling.

It gave the would-be author a comfortable feeling that, after all, he was only asking advice on the crudest technical matters on which Hester's superiority could be admitted without a loss of masculine self-respect.
"I would rather not tamper with punctuation and spelling," said Hester, dryly.

"I am so shaky on both myself.

You had better ask the school-master.