LAURA

Killed hisself drinking. An' she's that excitable, she is. We s'll 'ave an awful time with 'er to-morrow, I know.

MRS. HOLROYD (coldly)

I don't know why I should hear all this.

CLARA

I know I must 'ave seemed awful. An' them children—aren't they nice little things, Laura?

LAURA

They are that.

HOLROYD (entering from the door)

Hanna you about done theer?