"But how?" said Bill impatiently.
"And then," continued the woman, without heeding this question, "she wouldn't want Henry with her; and you might begin to make him useful some how or another. All we should have to do would be to take Fanny every day to some good thoroughfare, put her down there of a mornin', and go and fetch her agen at night; and I'll warrant she'd keep us in beer—aye, and in brandy too."
"What the devil are you driving at?" demanded the man.
"Can't you guess?"
"No—blow me if I can."
"Do you fancy the scheme?"
"Am I a fool? Why, of course I do: but how the deuce is all this to be done? You never could learn Fanny to be so fly as that?"
"I don't want to learn her anything at all. What I propose is to force it on her."
"And how is that?" asked the man.
"By putting her eyes out," returned the woman.