"Now then, that will do, ma'am. You are the last that ought to speak of my laziness, for I've been working for you three months, and never got a sixpence, or a penny piece, for all I did. Thanks, I never expected; for it's only black words you keep by you; and as for black looks, if you could sell them by the yard, you might start an undertaking business."
"Do you know who you are talking to?"
"Yes, but I don't know as ever I talked with a worse woman."
"I will make you suffer for your impertinence."
"That's likely, for you hurt people out of pure wickedness."
"Your month is up to-day at five o'clock. You will help McNab until two. Then you will pack your trunk, and come to me for your wage. There is a train for Kendal at four o'clock. You will take it. You will leave this house at half-past three."
"It caps all to listen to you. But the outside of this house is the right side for anybody who expects decent treatment. I am going with my mistress at half-past eleven, and I shall come back here with her, when she returns. And thanks be, ma'am, I am not going to Kendal. I am going to be married, and teach one Glasgow man how to treat a wife."
"You will come to me at three o'clock for your month's wage."
"You did not hire me, ma'am, and I don't take my pay from you. My mistress is now waiting for me," and with these words she turned to leave the room.
"Ducie! Ducie! Come here instantly!"