JACK
He doesn't when my uncle John's here. So you stop, an' perhaps he won't.
BLACKMORE
Don't you like him to shout when you're in bed?
[They do not answer, but look seriously at him.
CURTAIN
SCENE II
The same scene, two hours later. The clothes are folded in little piles on the table and the sofa. Mrs. Holroyd is folding a thick flannel undervest or singlet which her husband wears in the pit and which has just dried on the fender.
MRS. HOLROYD (to herself)