Spoiler : "...delighted to meet you, too uncle. I-I hope you'll not mind me calling you 'uncle'. After all, I know it's only by marriage." [uncle] "Uncle will do. Uncle will do. They all called [me] uncle—your father's full brother, Elsie, Norma, Matilda, Edna, and all their sisters, all called me uncle. Well, take yer bag, pick up yer feet, we've a fair walk. The house is set well back. I built every brick of her with my own hands, and I completed the whole building and the barn without another man's hands to help me, inside of three years."