"Just like him—to put off his duty all the week, then do it on the Lord's Day, when he didn't ought."
"He went to worship in the morning, however, as he generally does."
"That's to the good then."
"Soosie-Toosie's one of the best women on this earth," said Dinah, "only she's too much of a doormat. So cruel busy that she's never got time to think what she owes herself."
This struck the visitor as very true, but he had never been greatly interested in Susan. She was very unobtrusive and unchallenging in every way.
"She likes it," said Jane. "She likes being driven about and never getting even with her work."
"If work is prayer, her life is a prayer," said Mr. Bamsey.
"It's a prayer that never gets answered, then," replied Jane. "A dog's life really, only Susan don't see it, more than any other dog would, I suppose."
"Don't talk so free, Jane," urged her mother.
"She'll work herself to the bone and die afore her time I expect," continued Mrs. Bamsey's daughter. "Then very like you'll see her ghost, mother."