The doctor who attended her during the last week of her life discovered that she had never been well.

Yet we had often wondered at her letting Sanders pit his own potatoes when he was so unable.
"Them 'at's strong, ye see," Sanders explained, "doesna ken what illness is, an' so it's nat'ral they shouldna sympathize wi' onweel fowk.

Ay, I'm rale thankfu' 'at Nanny keeps her health.

I often envy her." These were considered creditable sentiments, and so they might have been had Nanny uttered them.

Thus easily Saunders built up a reputation for never complaining.