He said:
‘I must earn more, I suppose. I must do examining or something of that sort in the evenings; I must give up my book—that was the last thing that kept me alive!’
I said:
‘Don’t do that, Walter. I will try again; perhaps we could manage better without a cook.’
He said:
‘You couldn’t cook; you can’t manage as it is; and your grandmother keeps telling me you are overworked.’
I did not know that Grandmother had said so. I did not know that she had noticed it at all.
I said:
‘I could learn to cook. I would rather do that than housework.’
He said: