[Both sisters move quickly to the window.
Jane. A very comfortable looking home indeed.
Liz. I likes the looks of it better nor this great old house.
Jane. [Archly.] Now I daresay there’s but one thing wanted over there, Mister Jeremy.
Jeremy. What’s that?
Jane. A good wife to do and manage for you.
Jeremy. I never was done for nor managed by a female yet, and blowed if I will be now.
Liz. [Shaking her finger at him.] Sister an’ me knows what comes of such words, don’t us, sister? ’Tis an old saying in our family as one wedding do make a many.
Jeremy. Give me a woman’s tongue for foolishness. I’ve heared a saying too in my family, which be—get a female on to your hearth and ’tis Bedlam straight away.
Jane. Now, sister, did you ever hear the like of that?