“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.”