MAGGIE. No.

WILLIE. Mossop and Hobson or it's Oldfield Road for us, Maggie.

MAGGIE. Very well. Mossop and Hobson.

(WILL moves L.)

HOBSON. But—

(MAGGIE moves up stage R.)

WILLIE (opening door and looking through). I'll make some alterations in this shop, and all. I will so. (He goes through door and returns at once with a battered cane chair.)

HOBSON. Alterations in my shop! (Goes C.)

WILLIE. In mine. Look at that chair. How can you expect the high-class customers to come and sit on a chair like that? Why, we'd only a cellar, but they did sit on cretonne for their trying on.

HOBSON. Cretonne! It's pampering folk.