“You carry a charity a long way.”
“I carry everything. What's the use doing things by halves, good or bad?”
“Well, but that Polly! She is young enough to get her living elsewhere; and she is extremely disrespectful to you.”
“That she is. If I wasn't a lady, I'd have given her a good hiding this very day for her cheek!”
“Then why not turn her off this very day for her cheek?”
“Well, I'll tell you, since you and I are parted forever. No, I don't like.”
“Oh, come! No secrets between friends.”
“Well, then, the old hag is—my mother.”
“What?”
“And the young jade—is my sister.”