The Pearl/Volume 8/A Sensible Woman.
Mrs. Johnson, going into the cellar one day, caught her husband fucking the servant girl. A short time after, finding that Kate was packing her boxes to leave, she enquired the reason.
Kate.- "I couldn't think of stopping mum, after what you saw in the cellar."
Mrs. J.- "Go along girl, do you think I mind? Perhaps with what you do in the cellar, and I do upstairs, we may keep the old whoremonger at home between us."