PAULINE
I might strangle it when it's born, rather 'n sell it!
MRS. JOHN
Who's talkin' about sellin'?
PAULINE
Look at the frights an' the misery I've stood from October las' to this very day. My intended gives me the go; my landlady puts me out! They gives me notice at a lodgin's. What does I do that I has to be despised an' cursed an' kicked aroun'?
MRS. JOHN
That's what I says. That's cause the devil is still gettin' the better of our Lord Jesus.
Unnoticed and busy with the trap as before BRUNO has quietly re-entered by the door.