Here’s the passage
It has been a hard pool, but not too much for her. When she thought of all the food she had cooked, and all the clothes she had cut and sewed, and all the garden she had made well, the children showed it. There they were, made out of her, and they couldn’t get away from that. Sometime she wanted to see John again and point to them and say, well I didn’t do so badly, did I?