He's very well-to-do is Master Jeff, thanks to his own energy and perseverance; for farming isn't what it was.

But it's time he took a rest and looked about him.
He's thirty come Michaelmas, and he ought to be settling down.

As I say to him: 'Granny Grimshaw won't be here for always, and you won't like any other kind of housekeeper save and unless she's a wife as well.' He always laughs at me," said Granny Grimshaw, shaking her head.

"But it's true as the sun's above us.

Master Jeff ought to be stirring himself to find a wife.