Vashti. Seeing as them be sick of the abomination which was inside of they. [Perceiving Harry.] Well, and what be you as is comed into this room?
Harry. ’Tis Moss as I be called, old Missis. And as I was a-going by this place, I thought as I’d look in a moment, just for to ask how ’twas with May.
Vashti. They be all gone out from the house. All of them. They be in clothes what do lie in boxes most of the time with lumps of white among they. Them be set out in the best as they has, and in grand things of many colours. There ’tis.
Harry. And be you th’ old lady what’s Steve’s mother?
Vashti. I be not, sir. ’Tis mother to May as I be. May, what’s comed back, and what’ll set t’other old vixen in her place soon as they get home.
Harry. Then May, she be gone out, too, have her?
Vashti. [Looking round vaguely.] Ah, I counts as her be gone to church along of t’other.
Harry. To church, Missis?
Vashti. There’s marrying being done down here to-day.
Harry. Marrying, be there? Well, but I was ’most feared as how it might have been t’other thing.