This is a very dull chapter. Annis is peeved, so she makes a comment in Jake's hearing about how single children often grow up to be more selfish than those in large families. Jake alludes to this the next morning, but when she apologizes he asks her why she's "making such a thing about it" (p. 137).
Another odd bit of dialogue makes me think he's a bit of a jerk:
Annis: "Oh, do you think I'm pretty?"
Jake: "Why else should I have married you?" (p. 141)
I was amused to see one of the servants saying that "though I says it as shouldn't...", because I use that phrase as well. Come to think of it, I probably got it from a Betts, or from an old British children's book.
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