"A lot of things make Dorothea twitch. How well can he fetch?"
She sighed and resigned herself to her bed. She was going to be in this room a lot, and she would have no way of fixing the place up. Perhaps Tom could send someone to "help" her to get the place as she liked it, or she could maybe get Tom himself to do it—as long as he did exactly as she said.
"You really have to leave, don't you? Well, I'll find something else to do. Oh! Can you give me a piece of paper and a pen? I'll write a list of everything I need done for me and for this room."