Mary (sharply). The whole countryside has no business to talk about what doesn't concern it.
Kate. Oh, well, people are bound to talk, Miss.
Mary. But then Uncle Dan is awfully clever. He's got the whole brains of the Murrays, so father says, and then, besides that, he is a grand talker.
Kate. Aye. He can talk plenty. Sure Sarah McMinn, that lives up the Cut, says its a shame the way he's going on this twenty years and more, never doing a hand's turn from morning to night, and she says she wonders your poor father stands him and his nonsense.
Mary. Who said that?
Kate. Sarah McMinn told Johnny McAndless that yesterday.
Mary. Sarah McMinn? Pooh! That hard, mean, old thing. No. I believe in Uncle Dan and so does father. He'll make a name for himself yet.
Kate. Well, it's getting near time he done it.
Mary. And that Sarah McMinn they say just keeps her brother in starvation, and she just says nasty things like that about Uncle Dan because he doesn't like her.
Kate. Aye. He never did like people as seen through him, not but she is a mean old skin-a-louse. (The voice of Daniel Murray is heard calling from within.) He's up, Miss.