Shawn Early: He is talking queer now anyway.
Hyacinth Halvey: Calling to me every little minute—expecting me to do this thing and that thing—watching me the same as a watchdog, their eyes as if fixed upon my face.
Mrs. Broderick: To be giving out such strange thoughts, he hasn't much brains left around him.
Hyacinth Halvey: I looking to be Clerk of the Union, and the place I had giving me enough to do, and too much to do. Tied on this side, tied on that side. I to be bothered with business through the holy livelong day!
Peter Tannian: It is good pay he got with it. Eighty pounds a year doesn't come on the wind.
Hyacinth Halvey: In danger to be linked and wed—I never ambitioned it—with a woman would want me to be earning through every day of the year.
Shawn Early: He is a gone man surely.
Hyacinth Hakey: The wide ridge of the world before me, and to have no one to look to for orders; that would be better than roast and boiled and all the comforts of the day. I declare to goodness, and I 'd nearly take my oath, I 'd sooner be among a fleet of tinkers, than attending meetings of the Board!
Mrs. Broderick: If there are fairies in it, it is in the fairies he is.
Peter Tannian: Give me a hold of that chain.