$34$ points

In $6-8$ sentences, identify the story in which the following quotation appears, and explain how the main idea of this quotation helps us to understand the overall theme$($s$)$ of the story in which it appears:

$"$Mrs$.$ Monarch assisted her husband$-$they washed up my crockery, they put it away... When it came over me$,$ the latent eloquence of what they were doing, I confess that my drawing was blurred for a moment$-$the picture swam...It was an intense dumb appeal to me not to turn them out. 'Take us on$,\text{'}$ they wanted to say$-$'We'll do anything."$\text{'}$