'Tay?'
'Yes, you fool!'
'I know nothing about no tay.'
'I said you were to make some.'
'Not to me.'
'And toast.'
'I've douted the fire.'
He had just done so.
'Look here, my man, there's a missus at Undern now. You please her or go. She tells me what she wants. I tell you. You do it.'
'I'll 'ave no woman over me!' said Vessons sullenly. 'Never will I! Never a missus did I take, not for all the pleasures of bed and board—no, ne'er a one I ever took. Maiden I am to my dying day.'