Vincent [interrupting] Now look here. I want to get at an understandin'.
Thérèse. Monsieur Girard, will you be kind enough to speak for your friends? We have nothing to say on our part. We're asking for nothing.
Girard. Well, that's true. We want to have the mending back.
Thérèse. And we don't mean to give it up.
Girard. Well, we expected that. Now, to show you that we're not such a bad lot as you think, we'll share it with you on two conditions. The first is that you're paid the same wages as we are.
Deschaume. Look here, that won't suit me at all, that won't. If my old woman gets as much as me, how am I to keep her under? Blimey, she'll think she's my bloomin' equal!
Girard [impatiently] Oh, bung her into some other berth. Let me go on. The second condition is that you aren't to have a separate workshop. We'll all work together as we used to.
Thérèse. Why?
Deschaume. You women do a damned sight too much for your ha'pence.
Girard. Yes, it's all in the interests of the masters. It's against solidarity.