"And all I am good for is to eat them! I can do that. Do you make cheeses too?"
"I can. My mother generally makes the cheese."
"O, but I mean you. What do people do on a farm? women, I mean. I know what the men do. You know all about it. Do you have to milk the cows and feed everything?—chickens and pigs, you know, and all that?"
"The men milk," said Diana.
"And you have to do those other things? Isn't it horrid?"
"It is not horrid to feed the chickens. I never had anything to do with the pigs."
"O, but Evan says you know how to harness horses."
Does he? thought Diana.
"And you can cut wood?"
"Cut wood!" Diana repeated. "Did anybody say I could do that?"