I would think that, in the unlikely situation where a woman was visiting
a family and did not bring enough "work" of her own, there would be a
conversation like this:
Guest: Please, let me help you darn those stockings.
Hosts: Oh no, we wouldn't dream of asking you to do that.
Guest:
Yeah, the idea of charity sewing adds another dimension…
The situation, theoretically, is a female relative visiting (cousin, maybe),
with no problem for others to darn stockings or socks in her presence, but not
expecting her to work on the immediate family’s old holey socks.
Rather than
