‘You have been redding up the garret again!’
‘Not what you could call a redd up.’
‘O, woman, woman, I believe you have not been in bed at all!’
‘You see me in it.’
‘My opinion is that you jumped into bed when you heard me open the door.’
‘Havers.’
‘Did you?’
‘No.’
‘Well, then, when you heard me at the gate?’
‘It might have been when I heard you at the gate.’