Miss Joyce: I’ll engage it was in no honest way you got it.
Fardy: I picked it up in the street——
Miss Joyce: If you did, why didn’t you bring it to the Sergeant or to his Reverence?
Mrs. Delane: And some poor person, may be, being at the loss of it.
Miss Joyce: I’d best bring it to his Reverence. Come with me, Fardy, till he will question you about it.
Fardy: It was not altogether in the street I found it——
Miss Joyce: There, now! I knew you got it in no good way! Tell me, now.
Fardy: It was playing pitch and toss I won it——
Miss Joyce: And who would play for half-crowns with the like of you, Fardy Farrell? Who was it, now?
Fardy: It was—a stranger——