But it was mostly the other thing, that he’d had to sweat all his life and she’d never done a hand’s turn. She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry.
Useless, she had jeered, like all spoiled rich girls. Never done a hand’s turn in her life, and wouldn’t know how!
That would be wicked! I mean, she’s never done a hand’s turn for her father or her grandfather.