Are you a perfect slave ?" "Eh?
What ?" "Mrs.Hobbs says she is a perfect slave when she has to work hard." "Who's Mrs.Hobbs ?" "She's--she keeps house--that is, she used to keep house for my father over in Ostable.

I don't suppose she will any more now he's dead.

She'll be glad, I guess.

Perhaps she won't have to be a perfect slave now.
She used to wear aprons same as you do.

I never saw a man wear an apron before.