That wa'n't many, for the regular customers had to come first, and I didn't do any in Abel's lifetime--that is, not after I was sick.

I used to a while before that.

Abel wouldn't let me when we were first married, but he had to come to it.

Men can't do all they're willin' to.

I shouldn't have done anything but dress in silk, set an' rock, an' work scallops an' eyelets in cambric pocket-handkerchiefs, if Abel had had his say.