"Nurses him? The great baby! Why, a woman as round and big as our largest water-butt--a rough, hard-favoured old girl. I make no doubt she leads him a rich life. Nobody else is let near him. He is chiefly in the dark. It is my belief she knocks him about terribly in that chamber. I listen at the wall sometimes when I am in bed, and I think I hear her thumping him. You should see her fist. She could hold half a dozen hands like yours in her one palm. 
"Why, a woman as round and big as our water-butt - a rough old girl. It is my belief she knocks him about terribly in that room. I listen at the wall sometimes, and I think I hear her thumping him. You should see her fist. 