[He starts to bend down to help her, but a stab of pain in his back convinces him to squat instead, picking up some of the clothes and putting them in. Once the machine's full, he considers adding some detergent, but it looks as though there's a fair amount still inside already. He takes up the bottle anyway to show her.]

I'm not going to add any more right now, but next time when you do that, measure it out by filling this cap. This--[He unscrews the cap and holds it out for her to look, just to make sure she understands]--is all you need for one load.

[With that, he turns to the dials, adjusting them.] All right, we have it set to large load, normal wash--these other settings here are for if you have some kind of delicate fabric, but from what I saw you don't need to worry about that. This one here is water temperature and we want it set to warm or hot if we're doing lights--when we do darks, we set it to cold. So now we press this button, and...

[And the rush of water is heard as the machine starts filling. He offers a slight smile.]

That's it.

[Though on second thought, he's probably going to have to show her how the dryer works too...]