MAGGIE. Will's handy with his fingers. He'll put in this afternoon mending them. They'll be secure against you come to sit on them at supper-time to-night.

VICKEY. And that's the way you're going to live! With cast-off furniture. (Moves to window, L.)

MAGGIE. Aye. In two cellars in Oldfield Road.

VICKEY and ALICE. A cellar!

MAGGIE. Two of 'em, Alice. One to live and work in and the other to sleep in.

ALICE. Well, it 'ud not suit me.

VICKEY. Nor me.

MAGGIE. It suits me fine. And when me and Will are richer than the lot of you together, it'll be a grand satisfaction to look back and think about how we were when we began.

(WILL appears R. with two crippled chairs and begins to cross the shop.)

VICKEY (stopping him). Just a minute, Will. (She examines the chairs.) These chairs are not so bad.