But you're wiry.

I don't know but the wiry ones are the best after all.

Well, if I take you you'll have to be a good girl, you know--good and smart and respectful.
I'll expect you to earn your keep, and no mistake about that.

Yes, I suppose I might as well take her off your hands, Miss Cuthbert.

The baby's awful fractious, and I'm clean worn out attending to him.