JOE (as Mary opens door). Is Matthew in, Mrs. Butterworth?
MARY (without standing from door). Yes. You'll hear his loom if you hearken.
JOE. It's a sound that isn't often heard outside the factory nowadays.
MARY. It's one that isn't often hushed in here. Matthew's busy.
HENRI (half entering. Mary gives back). Too busy to see us, Madame Butterworth?
JOE (entering and speaking importantly). Tell him the 'Friends of the People are here to see him on the people's business.
(Henri and Martin enter, Martin closing the door.)
MARY (raising the candle to their faces). I know you. I know you all. You, Joe Healey and young Martin Kendall, and you—you're the Frenchman.
HENRI (bowing). I am the Frenchman, madame.
MARY (replacing the candle, disgustedly). Radicals, the three of you.