32
MRS. HOLROYD
[ACT I
- show. How dare you bring them to my house, how dare you?
Holroyd
- They ’ve non hurt your house, have they?
Mrs. Holroyd
- I wonder you dare to cross the doorstep.
Holroyd
- I s’ll do what the deuce I like. They ’re as good as you are.
Mrs. Holroyd (stands speechless, staring at him; then low) Don’t you come near me again—
Holroyd (suddenly shouting, to get his courage up)
- She ’s as good as you are, every bit of it.
Mrs. Holroyd (blazing)
- Whatever I was and whatever I may be, don’t you ever come near me again.
Holroyd
- What! I ’ll show thee. What ’s the hurt to you if a woman comes to the house? They ’re women as good as yourself, every whit of it.
Mrs. Holroyd
- Say no more. Go with them then, and don’t come back.
Holroyd
- What! Yi, I will go, an’ you s’ll see. What! You think you ’re something, since your uncle left you that money, an’ Blackymore puttin’ you up to it. I can see your little game. I ’m not as daft as you imagine. I ’m no fool, I tell you.
Mrs. Holroyd
- No, you ’re not, You ’re a drunken beast, that ’s all you are.
