HOBSON. Look here, Maggie, you're talking straight and I'll talk straight and all. When I'm set I'm set. You're coming here. I didn't want you when that doctor said it, but, by gum, I want you now. It's been my daughters' hobby crossing me. Now you'll come and look after me.
MAGGIE. All of us?
HOBSON. No. Not all of you. You're eldest.
MAGGIE. There's another man with claims on me.
HOBSON. I'll give him claims. Aren't I your father?
(ALICE enters L. She is rather elaborately dressed for so early in the day, and languidly haughty.)
MAGGIE. And I'm not your only daughter.
ALICE. You been here long, Maggie?
MAGGIE. A while.
ALICE (L.C.). Ah, well, a fashionable solicitor's wife doesn't rise so early as the wife of a working cobbler. You'd be up when Tubby came.