Damer: Which of ye is after meddling with my clock?
Delia: It was a full hour before its time.
Darner: It to be beyond its time, wouldn't that save fire and candles sending me to my bed early in the night? Leave down those boots! (Takes them from Staffy.) Is it that you are wearing out the uppers with scraping at them and scratching! Is it to rob me ye are come into this place?
Delia: I tell you we only came in getting word that you were done and dying.
Damer: Ha! Is it to think I was dying ye did? Well, I am not. I am not so easy quenched. Strength and courage I have, to keep a fast grip of what I own.
Delia: Let you not be talking that way! We are no grabbers and no thieves!
Damer: I have it in my mind that ye are. Very ravenous to run through my money ye are.
Delia: The world knows I am not ravenous! I never gave my heart to silver or to gold but only to the thing it would bring in. But to hold from me the thing my heart is craving after, you might as well blacken the hearth.
Damer: Striving to scare me out of my courage and my wits, the way I'll give in to go making my will.
Ralph: She would not be wishful you to do that the time your mind would be vexed.