I couldn't very well forget that.

My mother--" Dinah hesitated momentarily--"my mother was a dancer before she married." "And she taught you ?" asked Sir Eustace.
"No, no! She never taught me anything except useful things--like cooking and sewing and house-work.

And I detest them all," said Dinah frankly.

"I like sweeping the garden and digging the potatoes far better." "She keeps you busy then," commented Sir Eustace, with semi-humorous interest.
"Busy isn't the word for it," declared Dinah.

"I'm going from morning till night.