Liz. There bain’t but one sensible tongue in the whole place to my mind.
Jane. Ah, he’s a man to anyone’s liking, sister.
Liz. ’Tis homelike as he do make I to feel among all these strangers.
Jane. Here he comes.
[Jeremy with a yoke and two pails stands at the doorway.
Liz. Now do you come in, mister, and have a bit of talk along of we.
Jane. Set down them pails and do as sister says, Mister Jeremy.
[Jeremy looks them all over and then slowly and deliberately sets down his pails.
Liz. That’s right, sister and me was feeling terribly lonesome here this morning.
Jane. And we was wishing as we’d never left home to come among all these stranger folk.