"But I'm no denyin' that there's a kind o' look aboot her that's no common.

She would mak' a guid queen if we had ony need o' anither." "She makes a good mistress anyway," said loyal Mawson.
"Oh, she's no bad," Bella admitted.

"An' I must say she disna gie much trouble--but it's an idle life for ony wumman.

I canna see why Miss Reston, wi' a' her faculties aboot her, needs you hingin' round her.
Mercy me, what's to hinder her pu'in ribbons through her ain underclothes, if ribbons are necessary, which they're not.

There's Mrs.
Muir next door, wi' six bairns, an' a' the wark o' the hoose to dae an' washin's forbye, an' here's Miss Reston never liftin' a finger except to pu' silk threads through a bit stuff.