"I've come to start, zer," he said.
"Why wassn't you in the chapel yezterday?"
"I wass there, zer."
"Ho-ho. For me there are two people in the chapel—me and Him."
"Yez, indeed. Shall I gommence now?"
"Gommence what?"
"My crib what I leave to join up."
"Things have changed. There has been a war on, mister. They are all smart young ladies here now. And it is not right to sack them and shove them on the streets."
"But—"
"Don't answer back, or I'll have you chucked from the premizes and locked up. Much gratitude you show for all I did for the soders."