SCENE I]
MRS. HOLROYD
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Mrs. Holroyd
- But you ’ve had no tea, What an awful shame to keep you here!
Blackmore
- Nay, I don’t care. It never bothers me.
Mrs. Holroyd
- Then you ’re different from most men.
Blackmore
- All men are n’t alike, you know.
Mrs. Holroyd
- But do go and get some tea.
Minnie (plaintively)
- Can’t you stop, Mr. Blackmore?
Blackmore
- Why, Minnie?
Minnie
- So ’s we ’re not frightened. Yes, do. Will you?
Blackmore
- Frightened of what?
Minnie
- ’Cause there ’s noises, an’ rats,—an’ perhaps dad ’ll come home and shout.
Blackmore
- But he ’d shout more if I was here.
Jack
- He does n’t when my uncle John ’s here. So you stop, an’ perhaps he won’t.
Blackmore
- Don’t you like him to shout when you ’re in bed?
- [They do not answer, but look seriously at him.
CURTAIN
