I've scarcely talked for a year." She laughed idly.
"Why ?" "No one to talk to.

Except my man," he added conscientiously.

"His name is Wiggleswick." "I hope he looks after you well," said Zora, with a touch of maternal instinct.
"He wants training.

That's what I am always telling him.

But he can't hear.
He's seventy and stone-deaf.