MRS. HOLROYD
Goodness knows. I'm sick of it—disgracing me. There'll be the whole place cackling this now. They've no sooner finished about him getting taken up for fighting than they begin on this. But I'll put a stop to it some road or other. It's not going on, if I know it: it isn't.
[She stops, hearing footsteps, and Blackmore enters.
BLACKMORE
Here we are then—got one all right.
MINNIE
Did they give it you, Mr. Blackmore?
BLACKMORE
No, I took it.
[He screws on the burner and proceeds to light the lamp. He is a tall, slender, mobile man of twenty-seven, brown-haired, dressed in blue overalls. Jack Holroyd is a big, dark, ruddy, lusty lad. Minnie is also big, but fair.