BELLINE
Yes, it looks like a lumber-room where they've stored all the odds and ends and litter of the house.
ROSARELLE
(Touching the various objects in disgust.) What's this? A distaff? Bless me, what for?... A pumpkin, a cake, an old bowl and goodness knows what else!... A tub full of dead eels! Gracious, how they smell!... It's all disgracefully kept.... And that lot of old fly-blown, spun-glass dresses!... My dear, how horrible!... What sort of place can this be? A potting-shed, a rag-and-bone shop, a pawn-broker's, or a thieves' kitchen? Whom can it belong to? A receiver of stolen goods? (Touching the more bizarre dresses.) Or a Hottentot dressmaker?
BELLINE
There's something of everything ... except a broom and a duster.
ROSARELLE
One wouldn't be enough.
BELLINE
And nothing to sit on but an old wooden bench....