ALBERT
Mother has James Scollard in her eye for the new Master.
CRILLY Right enough! Scollard would get it, too, and then he would marry Anna.
ALBERT
That's the arrangement, I expect.
CRILLY It mightn't be bad. Scollard mightn't want Nancy's money under that arrangement. Still I don't like the idea of the old man living in the house.
ALBERT The mother would never think of letting him take himself and his pension anywhere else.
CRILLY
I don't think she would.
ALBERT I wouldn't be surprised if he did go somewhere else. I hear he often goes up to that cottage in Stradrina.
CRILLY
What cottage, Albert?
ALBERT Briar Cottage. I hear he sits down there, and talks of coming to live in the place.
CRILLY (warningly) Albert, don't clap hands behind the bird. Take my word, and say nothing about it.