You will not buy them easily now, the people will not chuckle at you when you bid for them now.

We have become so cute in Thrums that when the fender breaks we think it may have increased in value, and we preserve any old board lest the worms have made it artistic.

Grizel, however, was in advance of her time.
She could lay her hands on all she wanted, and she did, but it was for Elspeth's house.
"And the table-cloths and the towels and the sheets," said Tommy.
"Nothing monstrous in my letting you give Elspeth them ?" The linen, you see, was no longer in Grizel's press.
"I could not help making them," she answered, "they were so longing to be made.

I did not mean to give them to her.

I think I meant to put them back in the press, but when they were made it was natural that they should want to have something to do.