There are always so many things to be done as winter approaches.

I sometimes feel as if I were chained to my sewing-machine, and have so much to do.

But I'm afraid such work would seem very stupid to you.

It would mean sitting still all day, you know, with no one to talk to but Eleanor and me." Jane looked wonderingly at the two women before her.

No one but them to talk to! She never had imagined an opportunity to talk to such people at all.