JOHN
[Modestly.] Mother, how'd it be if I was to open the window jus' a speck an' was to light my pipe for a bit?
MRS. JOHN
Does you have to smoke? If not, you better let it be!
JOHN
No, I don't has to, mother. Only I'd like to! Never mind, though. A quid'll be just as good in the end.
[With comfortable circumstantiality he prepares a new quid.
MRS. JOHN
[After a brief silence.] How's that? You has to go to the public registry office again?