MRS. METHERELL (scoffing). Business!
ELSIE. You have no business now with Jack that doesn't include me. If Jack goes, I go.
AUSTIN. This includes you.
MRS. METHERELL. Jack doesn't go. Jack stays where he is.
AUSTIN (trying to be dignified). Do you know who I am?
MRS. METHERELL. You're the man who's flitting me to Birchester. Turning me out of my house, me that's lived in Blackton all my life, to go to a strange town and buy in strange shops where'll they rob me, and live beside strangers instead of here where everybody knew me for the mother of Jack Metherell.
ELSIE. But from what Jack says, Mrs. Metherell, Black-ton won't be very pleasant for you now.
MRS. METHERELL (hotly). Who's made it so?
AUSTIN. Mrs. Metherell, can't we be friends? I've always been on friendly terms in Club affairs with Jack, until to-day.
MRS. METHERELL. A lot can happen in a day.