Nevertheless, she did not move away.

"It IS Kate coming," she added hurriedly, stooping to pick up her work-basket, which had slipped with Lee's hand from her own.
It was Kate, who at once flew to her sister's assistance, Lee deploring from the sofa his own utter inability to aid her.

"It's all my fault, too," he said to Kate, but looking at Mrs.Hale.

"It seems I have a faculty of upsetting existing arrangements without the power of improving them, or even putting them back in their places.

What shall I do?
I am willing to hold any number of skeins or rewind any quantity of spools.