Hester!
HESTER
I will not live in the same house with Janet. Nothing shall induce me. I would rather beg my bread.
JANET
That settles it then. Thanks, Hester. I’m glad you had the pluck to say that. You are right. Quite right.
HESTER
I can do without your approval, Janet.
JANET
(recklessly)
Of course you can. But you can have it all the same. You never wanted me down here. You always disapproved of my being sent for. I ought never to have come. I wish I hadn’t come. My coming has only done harm to Hester, as she knew it would.