JANET
I suppose so. Going on in that way about her ridiculous cockatoo! And that hideous little curate!
HESTER
I don’t see why you should sneer at all my friends.
JANET
Are they your friends, Hester? Then I won’t sneer at them. But you can’t call Mr. Brown handsome, can you?
HESTER
Mr. Brown is a very good man and works very hard among the poor. That’s better than being handsome.
JANET
Yes. But less agreeable, isn’t it? However, if you like him there’s an end of it. But he needn’t have begun asking Johnny his catechism the very first time he met him. I don’t call it good manners,