她相信从所有事物中获得尽可能多的利用，并认为只要机械或其他任何东西都可以哄骗，就应该保留它。她认为，否则却是浪费的。
(She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.)