The Dean.
I trust that your self-respect as an officer of the law will avert anything so unseemly.
Noah.
Ay. That’s it! You’ve touched me on my point o’ pride. There ain’t another police-station in all Durnstone conducted more strict and rigid nor what mian is, and it shall so continue. You and me is a goin’ to set out for Durnstone, and when the charges now standin’ agen you is entered, it’s I, Noah Topping, what’ll hadd another!
[There is another knock at the door.
Hannah.
Noah!
Noah.
The charge of allynating the affections o’ my wife, ’Annah!
The Dean.