Being local doesn't seem to help being uprooted, at least in some ways, does it?

"S'pose you know how to work the oven, then?" It's a hopeful sort of question, if also slightly doubtful-- she's the lady of the house, and it's a fine house, she probably doesn't need to know how to work the oven. "I'm happy to cook for folk, only there's no fire in."

And he's not dumb enough to try to build one in there, either.