"A very great difference. She'll save me from having to go to a
cupboard for my bread and meat."

"I suppose having a woman about is better for a man. They haven't got
any thing else to do, and therefore they can look to things."

"Do you help to look to things?"

"I suppose I do something. I often feel ashamed to think how very
little it is. As for that, I'm not wanted at all."

"So that you're free to go elsewhere?"

"I didn't mean that, Mr. Medlicot; only I know I'm not of much use."

"But if you had a house of your own?"

"Gangoil is my home just as much as it is Mary's; and I sometimes
feel that Harry is just as good to me as he is to Mary."

"Your sister will never leave Gangoil."

"Not unless Harry gets another station."

"But you will have to be transplanted some day."

Kate merely chucked up her head and pouted her lips, as though to
show that the proposition was one which did not deserve an answer.