PAULINE. Yes, mam. (curtseys) She's here like a snake in the grass, mam, and her and the young ladies is goin' to extinguish all the men. They're all goin' to be pirates, mam, and most bloody minded pirates they be, too. And you, mam, that never did them any harm, they are going to capture and take along with them in chains. For a chaperone, mam.
GRANDMA, (hanging her head) And is this the reward for my efforts to make good wives of them!
(Enter SUSAN cautiously. She beckons to the girls.)
SUSAN. This way! She's here!
(The girls creep in, knives in their teeth, swaggering like story-book pirates. SUSAN folds her arms.)
SUSAN. Woman! Your hour has come!
GRANDMA. Well, I do declare!
SUSAN. These poor maidens you thought to corrupt into housework ways, I have won from you. Here, to-day, the revolution that will sweep the men from the land and sea, begins! We are resolved! ALL. (shouting) We are resolved!
SUSAN. In these hearts burns nothing but hatred and detestation of man.
ALL. (shouting) Hatred and detestation.