I think
you are very loyal--if I can call it loyalty--if you'll let me call it
that. I like my work here; I'm perfectly happy doing it. It was hard at
first. I knew absolutely nothing of housekeeping and managing things when
I came here. I had to work--to learn book-keeping and accounts--cooking--
building--carpentering--stock-raising--oh, everything. I had to feel that
I knew very nearly as much about everything as the people who were to do
what I told them. And of course that was quite true; but it wasn't at all
easy. It has taken me eight years to get as far as I am now. And I could
go on for years more. There's nobody on the place whom I can't manage:
they all like me. I'm quite comfortable--if I can be let alone."
... Speaking so, she believed it. But, thinking it over she was driven to
explain herself.
"People seem to think that girls--that women--care for nothing but one
thing--being married, I mean. I'm sure that's a mistake. One gets
interested, one may get absorbed--and then there's a difficulty. For it's
very true, I think, that unless we care for the one thing, and that thing
only, we don't care for it at all. At least, that is how I feel about it.
I have got lots of interests in life--all these things here--management of
things.
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