MRS HALE: (looking about) It never seemed a very cheerful place. COUNTY ATTORNEY: No — it's not cheerful. I shouldn't say she had the homemaking instinct. MRS HALE: Well, I don't know as Wright had, either. COUNTY ATTORNEY: You mean that they didn't get on very well? MRS HALE: No, I don't mean anything. But I don’t think a place'd be any cheerfuller for John Wright's being in it. —Trifles, Susan Glaspell What does the county attorney think of Mrs. Wright?

He thinks that she was a poor housekeeper

Explanation:

He thinks that she did not like Mr. Wright

He thinks that she was a poor housekeeper

He thinks that she worked too hard

He thinks that she was a poor housekeeper because he visited Mrs. Wright's house and was in a precarous condition.

There were two women in this visit, and they were talking about the house's condition, the county attorney tried to stop those comments.

The county attorney started to think about that bad condition, Dirty towels! [Kicks his foot against the pans under the sink.] Not much of a housekeeper.

the punctuation used in this line was exclamation points. exclamation points can show excitement, anxiousness, and etc.