Why?

ALBERT

Becos they were after me. I was a dead man if I stuck to it then. I threw it in ’ere to gain time and knowin’ the ’ouse.

MISS PERKINS

Well, I never!

ALBERT

They’re a desp’rate lot.

MR PERKINS

It’s all most unusual. Never since I’ve been an ’ouse’older ’ave I——

MISS PERKINS