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."
— A proposito, signora, vorrei che le calze di lana fossero in migliore stato. Quando venni qui l'ultima volta, esaminai il bucato steso sulle corde in giardino, e vidi le calze nere così rotte da far ritenere che da un pezzo non fossero state rammendate.