SKRUFF (eagerly). Yes! yes!
SPRONKS. That I know just as much about it now as before I began—ha! ha! ha! (runs up to gate—stops). Don’t go and forget which is the taters!
[Runs out.
SKRUFF. That boy will end his days in penal servitude!
Enter SALLY from house.
SALLY. How late that boy is with the vegetables!
SKRUFF. Here they are, Sally—I took ’em in! (giving SALLY the basket)—them’s the taters!
SALLY. Thank’ee sir (going).
SKRUFF. Stop a minute, Sally! Do you know, I’ve taken quite a fancy to give you a shilling? (SALLY hurries back). (Aside.) That eagerness to collar the shilling convinces me that sixpence would have been enough! (Aloud.) Been long in the Gritty family, Sally?
SALLY. Ever since I first came, sir—not before.