And, O ma'am! I wish the woollen stockings were better looked to!--when I was here last, I went into the kitchen-garden and examined the clothes drying on the line; there was a quantity of black hose in a very bad state of repair: from the size of the holes in them I was sure they had not been well mended from time to time."
Hay que preocuparse también del repaso de medias. La última vez que estuve aquí vi, tendidas, muchas que estaban llenas de agujeros.