Mistress (returning). "Any one to see me, Mary?"
Mary. "Yes, mem. An insanitary spectre."
[But it was only the sanitary inspector who had called regarding some alterations that were going on.
"THE FROGS" AT OXFORD.
Scene—Parlour of Private House, Oxford. Time—Quite recently. Cook wishes to speak to her Mistress.
Cook. Please, 'm, I should like to go out this evening, 'm, which it's to see them Frogs at the New Theayter.
Mistress. But it's all Greek, and you won't understand it.
Cook. O yes, 'm. I once saw the Performin' Fleas, and they was French, I believe, leastways a Frenchman were showin' of 'em, and I understood all as was necessary.
[After this, of course she obtains permission.