10
MRS. HOLROYD
[ACT I
Jack
- I bet he ’ll never go to work to-morrow, mother—will he?
Mrs. Holroyd
- Goodness knows. I’m sick of it—disgracing me. There ’ll be the whole place cackling this now. They ’ve no sooner finished about him getting taken up for fighting than they begin on this. But I ’ll put a stop to it some road or other. It’s not going on, if I know it: it is n’t.
- [She stops, hearing footsteps, and Blackmore enters.
Blackmore
- Here we are then—got one all right.
Minnie
- Did they give it you, Mr. Blackmore?
Blackmore
- No, I took it.
- [He screws on the burner and proceeds to light the lamp. He is a tall, slender, mobile man of twenty-seven, brown-haired, dressed in blue overalls. Jack Holroyd is a big, dark, ruddy, lusty lad. Minnie is also big, but fair.
Minnie
- What do you wear blue trousers for, Mr. Blackmore?
Blackmore
- They ’re to keep my other trousers from getting greasy.
Minnie
- Why don’t you wear pit-breeches, like dad’s?
Jack
- ’Cause he’s a ’lectrician. Could you make me a little injun what would make electric light?
