My attention was now called off by Miss Smith desiring me to hold a skein of thread: while she was winding it, she talked to me from time to time, asking whether I had ever been at school before, whether I could mark, stitch, knit, &c.; till she dismissed me, I could not pursue my observations on Miss Scatcherd's movements.
Ma in quel momento la signorina Smith, pregandomi di reggerle una matassa di filo, distrasse la mia attenzione. Mentre che aggomitolava, parlavami di tanto in tanto domandandomi se ero stata in pensione, se sapevo marcare, cucire e far la calza.