Hyacinth Halvey: I have no business only to be showing respect to him.
Shawn Early: His good word he will give to Mr. Halvey at the Board, where it is likely he will be made Clerk of the Union next week.
Mrs. Broderick: His good word he will give to another thing besides that, I am thinking.
Hyacinth Halvey: I don't know what you are talking about.
Mrs. Broderick: Didn't you hear the news, Peter Tannian, that Mr. Halvey is apt to be linked and joined in marriage with Miss Joyce, the priest's housekeeper?
Peter Tannian: I to believe all the lies I'd hear, I'd be a racked man by this.
Mrs. Broderick: What I say now is as true as if you were on the other side of me. I suppose now the priest is come home there'll be no delay getting the license.
Hyacinth Halvey: It is not so settled as that.
Mrs. Broderick: Why wouldn't it be settled and it being told at Mrs. Delane's and through the whole world?
Peter Tannian: She should be a steady wife for him—a fortied girl.