Wounded Man. Oh, Polly, you’ll have a bad time with the kiddies till I’m about again.

Polly. Don’t you take on, Jim. We’ll pull through somehow, though I don’t know how. (Cries.)

Messenger. Help her.

Horace. I can’t. I have only notes.

Messenger. Give them to her.

Horace. I’ve nothing less than a tenner.

Messenger. Give all that you have.

Horace. All that I have? Absurd! I can’t! I won’t!

Messenger. How much have you?