Sheriff. nothing here but kitchen things.
(the county attorney, after again looking around the kitchen, opens the door of a cupboard closet. he gets up on a
chair and looks on a shelf. pulls his hand away, sticky.)
county attorney. here's a nice mess.
(the women draw nearer)
mrs. peters (to the other woman). oh, her fruit; it did freeze. (to the lawyer). she worried about that when it
turned so cold. she said the fire'd go out and her jars would break
what do the underlined stage directions suggest about the women, mrs. hale and mrs. peters?

i have identified the gerund in this sentence by writing it in all capitals.

gerund phrase: writing it in all capitals

gerund use: object of preposition

there is not such an "uncle" in the poem "a servant to servants". the narrator refers to many characters -particularly her brother and her husband- both suffering from mental illness. the woman is also suffering because she does something to but she is not happy with the situation.

the poem has a dramatic monologue about the woman life's circumstances and her traumatic events form the past.

"a servant to servants" is a poem written by robert frost, and is part of a collection of poems "north of boston", of 1915.