Ralph: (Taking them.) And the way he will see you are a good housekeeper and will mind well anything he might think fit to give.
Delia: (At clock.) I'll set to the right time of day the two hands of the clock are pointing a full hour before the sun. Take, Staffy, that pair of shoes and lessen from them the clay of the land. That much of doing will not break your heart. He will be as proud as the fallen angels seeing the way we have all set out before him.
(A harsh laugh is heard at inner door. They turn and see Damer watching them.)
Ralph: Glory be to God!
Delia: It is Damer was within all the time!
Staffy: What are you talking about, Delia? It is Patrick you were meaning to say.
Damer: Let her go on prattling out Damer to my face, as it is often she called it behind my shoulders. Damer the chandler, the miser got the spoil of the Danes, that was mocked at since the time of the Danes. I know well herself and the world have me christened with that nickname.
Ralph: Ah, it is not to dispraise you they put it on you, but to show you out so wealthy and so rich.
Damer: I am thinking it is not love of my four bones brings you on this day under my thatch?
Staffy: We heard tell you were after being destroyed with a jennet.