And then," she said, "she had got to make a dozen fine shirts for Solomon, so's to leave him comfortable while she wuz gone, and the children three suits apiece all round." Sez I, "How long do you lay out to be gone ?" "About two weeks," she said.
And I told her, "That it didn't seem as if he would need so many shirts for so short a time." But she said, "She should feel more relieved to have 'em done." So I wouldn't say no more to break it up.

For it is fur from me to want to diminish any female's relief.
And the cars tooted jest then, so I didn't have no more time to multiply words with her anyway..