Nurse Perry is a good machine , in thorough working order, and Val is developing quite a new talent.
No, don't be conceited, Theodora ; I can get on without you now.  Nurse Perry is a good machine , in thorough working order, and Val is developing quite a new talent.  She knocks down the chairs now, not the fireirons, and she only very occasionally upsets that beastly but inevitable beef-tea on to a clean sheet.