Kate. What's the news? Somebody killed?

Brown. No. More serious.

Kate (alarmed). God bless me! What is it?

Brown. Andy McMinn has a sister.

Kate (disappointed). Ach!

Brown. And she's trying to get a man.

Kate. Well. I knowed that this years.

Brown. And Mr. John Murray is a widow man.

Kate. You mean to be telling me that Mr. John has a notion of that old thing? Go long with you!