The Bakehouse

Cue-sheet for Mrs Howells

(Mrs Morgan) {Without.}
 
(1, 0) 189 Noswath dda, Mrs. Morgan.
(Mrs Morgan) Good night, Mrs. Howells.
 
(1, 0) 194 Oh! weddol, Betsi fach, weddol!
(1, 0) 195 But it's a hard day of it I've had─what with the extra baking and getting a bed ready for my brother-in-law.
(Mrs Evans) So he's coming on a visit after all, then?
 
(Mrs Evans) I didn't quite understand when your Maggie brought five loaves instead of three, as usual.
(1, 0) 200 Yes.
(1, 0) 201 We're going to have John William with us for a couple of weeks.
(1, 0) 202 As soon as he heard that our Evan had been broken out of the Chapel for drinking, he wrote and said he was coming to stay a fortnight.
(Mrs Evans) Taw sôn, gel!
 
(Mrs Evans) {She goes out for a moment, and is heard emptying out the bucket.}
(1, 0) 209 Well, I won't say a few pounds wouldn't come in handy with our Evan as he is.
(1, 0) 210 But I've roughed it enough in this old world, and I can manage.
(1, 0) 211 It's of the little girl I'm thinking.
(1, 0) 212 I'd be glad if he put a bit by for her to fall back on after my days.
(Mrs Evans) So, after all, in a way of speaking, Mary Ann, it was a good thing Richards the Checkweigher brought your Evan before the Chapel?
 
(Mrs Evans) So, after all, in a way of speaking, Mary Ann, it was a good thing Richards the Checkweigher brought your Evan before the Chapel?
(1, 0) 215 Well, if the little girl was to gain anything by John William coming, there's no thanks due to the Richardses.
(1, 0) 216 I'm not denying Evan is fond of his glass.
(1, 0) 217 But there was no call for Richards to bring him before the Chapel, especially with Mrs. Richards using my mangle as she used to.
(Mrs Evans) But, I suppose, Mary Ann─between me and you─it is true your Evan was brought home on a wheelbarrow?
 
(Mrs Evans) But, I suppose, Mary Ann─between me and you─it is true your Evan was brought home on a wheelbarrow?
(1, 0) 219 Well, Betsi, it isn't for me to say he was─being his wife; and, being a Christian woman, it isn't for me to say he wasn't.
(1, 0) 220 But what I do say is, there was no need for the Richardses to make a fuss about it.
(Mrs Evans) There's no denying Mrs. Richards got very high and mighty when her eldest girl married the preacher; and there's no holding her now Richards is made a deacon.
 
(Mrs Evans) There's no denying Mrs. Richards got very high and mighty when her eldest girl married the preacher; and there's no holding her now Richards is made a deacon.
(1, 0) 222 By one vote, Betsi.
(1, 0) 223 I'd as soon vote for Cohen the Pawnbroker!
(Mrs Evans) Of course they bring a lot of bread to the bakehouse.
 
(Mrs Evans) Of course they bring a lot of bread to the bakehouse.
(1, 0) 225 And it's nothing to make a song about either, is the Richards's bread.
(Mrs Evans) Middling─just middling.
 
(Mrs Evans) Very thick in the crust on times, Mary Ann; very thick on times.
(1, 0) 228 What I've always said is, barm or yeast.
(1, 0) 229 Stick to one or the other.
(1, 0) 230 I can't abide a woman that's always shilly-shallying with the both.
(Mrs Evans) Well, of course, you ought to know if anybody did, Mary Ann.
 
(Mrs Evans) Well, of course, you ought to know if anybody did, Mary Ann.
(1, 0) 232 Not that I'm saying a woman oughtn't to use barm if she can't get good yeast.
(1, 0) 233 Oh, no!
(Mrs Evans) No, no.
 
(Mrs Evans) Of course!
(1, 0) 237 There's me now.
(1, 0) 238 I went to the Top Shop for yeast this morning.
(1, 0) 239 Such trash, my girl─well, you ought to have seen it!
(1, 0) 240 Rise?
(1, 0) 241 You'd want a balloon to rise it.
(1, 0) 242 So I sent our Maggie up to the brewery for some barm.
(Mrs Evans) Quite right, too, Mary Ann.
 
(Mrs Evans) Such a tidy man he used to be, too!
(1, 0) 246 Aay!
(1, 0) 247 I remember him well.
(1, 0) 248 Great friend of our Evan, and of your Yanto, too, come to that!
 
(1, 0) 250 Der! times have changed on us all.
(Mrs Evans) D'you remember me telling you, Mary Ann, about taking the two photographs to Pritchard?
 
(1, 0) 253 Yes, yes!
(1, 0) 254 Yanto and Zachariah?
(Mrs Evans) Well, I've had the likenesses.
 
(1, 0) 257 No!
(Mrs Evans) Ie, yn wir.
 
(Mrs Evans) Grand likenesses they are, too!
(1, 0) 260 You don't say!
(1, 0) 261 Let's have a look, Betsi fach.
(Mrs Evans) I'll go and get them.
 
(Mrs Evans) I'll go and get them.
(1, 0) 263 Yes, quick.
 
(1, 0) 268 Well, tan i marw!
(1, 0) 269 Yanto─the living image of him, Betsi!
(1, 0) 270 Poor Yanto, such a happy laugh he had, you'd think there was no such thing.
(1, 0) 271 as trouble in the world!
(Mrs Evans) {Unwrapping the second picture.}
 
(Mrs Evans) And here's Zachariah.
(1, 0) 276 Well, diwedd annwyl, Betsi fach!
(1, 0) 277 The spit moral of him─just as he used to be, sitting in the sêt fawr in Horeb.
(Mrs Evans) They'll be a great comfort to me, Mary Ann, a great comfort.
 
(1, 0) 282 It takes us back a long time, Betsi fach!
(1, 0) 283 It's a long time since you and Yanto Pugh the Pop began walking out on Bryndu.
(Mrs Evans) {Picking up the pictures.}
 
(Mrs Evans) She's only been married a month.
(1, 0) 296 Has she started baking her own bread?
(Mrs Evans) Yes.
 
(Mrs Evans) She's got two in to-night.
(1, 0) 299 Oh, indeed!
(1, 0) 300 Large or Small?
(Mrs Evans) Small.
 
(Mrs Evans) Small.
(1, 0) 302 Well, people may say what they like, but I've always believed the small loaves bake more even.
(1, 0) 303 I'd never make large myself.
(Mrs Evans) It's her first baking; and pretty excited about it she is, I can tell you.
 
(Mrs Evans) It's her first baking; and pretty excited about it she is, I can tell you.
(1, 0) 305 Well, its only natural.
(Mrs Evans) She even forgot to mark it.
 
(Mrs Evans) She even forgot to mark it.
(1, 0) 307 Taw sôn!
(1, 0) 308 Forgot to mark it?
(Mrs Evans) But I've put it in the corner by the wall, so that I'll know.
 
(Mrs Evans) But I've put it in the corner by the wall, so that I'll know.
(1, 0) 310 Nice little thing she is, I'd say, from the look of her.
(Mrs Evans) Oh, yes!
 
(Mrs Evans) Mrs. Price Shop Loshin says she's too stuck-up, I doubt its true.
(1, 0) 314 But then, according to Mrs. Price Shop Loshin, everybody's too stuck up that won't waste half the morning talking over the wall.
(Mrs Evans) And of course, Mrs. Price is thick as thieves with Mrs. Richards the Checkweigher.
 
(Mrs Evans) And of course, Mrs. Price is thick as thieves with Mrs. Richards the Checkweigher.
(1, 0) 316 I suppose Mrs. Richards will never get over it that Davy Morgan didn't marry her Jinnie after all?
(Mrs Evans) Well, you see, there's no denying it is a good business, and Davy'll get it all after the old man's days.
 
(Mrs Evans) Well, you see, there's no denying it is a good business, and Davy'll get it all after the old man's days.
(1, 0) 318 They thought a lot of his wife down there at the Paris House, and I'll say this for her whatever─that bonnet she made for our Sarah when Matthew died was almost enough to make a woman thankful to be a widow.
(Mrs Evans) H'sh!
 
(Mrs Evans) Here she is.
(1, 0) 322 Who?
(Mrs Evans) Mrs. Morgan.
 
(1, 0) 329 And, of course, I told him he'd better come back in the morning.
(1, 0) 330 Oh!
(1, 0) 331 It's Mrs. Morgan!
(Mrs Morgan) I thought it might be ready now, Mrs. Evans─
 
(1, 0) 337 It's your first baking, I suppose, Mrs. Morgan?
(Mrs Morgan) {Trying to be casual.}
 
(1, 0) 345 Er─how long did you say you'd been married?
(Mrs Morgan) Nearly a month.
 
(Mrs Morgan) {She draws herself up.}
(1, 0) 350 No, I'm not making fun, Mrs. Morgan.
(1, 0) 351 But it isn't a woman's business to get her husband everything he wants.
(Mrs Morgan) No?
 
(1, 0) 355 Well, I'd say now it's her business to keep him from wanting everything she can't get.
(Mrs Morgan) What d'you mean?
 
(Mrs Morgan) I don't think I understand.
(1, 0) 358 Never you mind then.
(1, 0) 359 You will some day.
(Mrs Evans) Don't you notice her, Mrs. Morgan.
 
(Mrs Morgan) But some men are different to others─
(1, 0) 363 I wonder!
(Mrs Evans) Well, there wasn't much alike about my two─beyond a coat and trousers.
 
(Mrs Morgan) And my husband's an exception─
(1, 0) 366 Every woman's husband is an exception, Mrs. Morgan─-when she's only been married a month.
(Mrs Morgan) {Turning away somewhat writated.}
 
(Mrs Morgan) That's what I mean─the Richardses.
(1, 0) 377 Don't you vex about them, Mrs. Morgan.
(1, 0) 378 They're not worth it.
(Mrs Morgan) It's all very well for Jinnie Richards, that's been at home all her life.
 
(Mrs Morgan) But if it came to making bonnets─
(1, 0) 381 Aay.
(1, 0) 382 Then she'd see; and, if you'll excuse me mentioning it, that was a grand little bonnet you made for our Sarah─
(Mrs Morgan) I'd rather make fifty of them than go through this day again.
 
(Mrs Evans) We've all had to go through it─the best of us; even Mrs. Howells here.
(1, 0) 385 Yes.
(1, 0) 386 But, to-day, when the talk is of baking, I can hold up my head with any woman in the valley.
(1, 0) 387 And I've got my own tins, too, with my name on them.
(1, 0) 388 Wara tég i Evan!
(1, 0) 389 He does take a pride in the bread.
(1, 0) 390 What did you: use, Mrs. Morgan, yeast or barm?
(Mrs Morgan) Yeast, Mrs. Howells.
 
(1, 0) 395 Wh-a-a-t?
(Mrs Evans) Well, yn enw dyn!
 
(Mrs Evans) Well, yn enw dyn!
(1, 0) 397 Top Shop?
(1, 0) 398 Last night?
(Mrs Morgan) {Terrified.}
 
(Mrs Morgan) Is there anything─
(1, 0) 402 Did you try it, Mrs. Morgan?
(Mrs Morgan) Try it?
 
(Mrs Morgan) Try it?
(1, 0) 404 Yes.
(1, 0) 405 Mix it with warm water and sprinkle flour on it, and put it on the hob to see if it would rise?
(Mrs Morgan) No!
 
(Mrs Morgan) Don't let them see it─not that Jinnie Richards!
(1, 0) 415 Let me see.
(1, 0) 416 You're living in Tredegar Terrace.
(1, 0) 417 Have you got any of that yeast left?
(Mrs Morgan) Yes; a lot.
 
(Mrs Morgan) I thought I'd keep it for next time.
(1, 0) 421 Keep it?
(Mrs Evans) Keep yeast?
 
(Mrs Evans) Keep yeast?
(1, 0) 424 You'd better run home quick, and bring me a bit to look at.
(Mrs Evans) Yes.
 
(Mrs Evans) Quick!
(1, 0) 432 Betsi?
(Mrs Evans) Well?
 
(Mrs Evans) Well?
(1, 0) 434 That bread won't rise with that Top Shop yeast─not if you leave it there till Judgment Day!
(Mrs Evans) And that's the girl Davy Morgan was so dull on!
 
(Mrs Evans) And that's the girl Davy Morgan was so dull on!
(1, 0) 436 Pity for her, too, mind you!
(1, 0) 437 She's young; that's all.
(Mrs Evans) Well, if it's spoiled, it's spoiled!
 
(Mrs Evans) Well, if it's spoiled, it's spoiled!
(1, 0) 439 Can't we do something, Betsi?
(1, 0) 440 I don't like to think of her looking simple before all the others, and her only newly married.
(Mrs Evans) H'sh!
 
(Mrs Evans) There's somebody coming.
(1, 0) 445 It's the Richardses!
 
(Mrs Evans) Noswath dda; noswath dda, Jinnie.
(1, 0) 459 Good night to you, Mrs. Richards.
(1, 0) 460 How are you, Miss Richards?
(Jinnie) Pretty well, thank you, indeed, Mrs. Howells.
 
(1, 0) 485 Oh yes, Mrs. Richards, often!
 
(Mrs Richards) And how is your poor husband, Mrs. Howells?
(1, 0) 510 Oh! he's eating his allowance pretty hearty, thank you, Mrs. Richards.
(Mrs Richards) I feel I ought to tell you, Mrs. Howells, how sorry I am about what happened in Horeb.
 
(Mrs Richards) Our Jinnie here will tell you the same─
(1, 0) 514 I'm sure she will, Mrs. Richards.
(Mrs Richards) But Richards's conscience wouldn't let him rest.
 
(Mrs Richards) And he'd not long been made a deacon.
(1, 0) 518 Every new broom sweeps clean, as we all know.
(Mrs Richards) And, of course, it was such a disgrace on the chapel.
 
(Mrs Richards) And, of course, it was such a disgrace on the chapel.
(1, 0) 520 Well, I wouldn't like to be the one to say so, Mrs. Richards; but you ought to know your own husband best─
(Mrs Richards) {Haughtily.}
 
(1, 0) 525 Oh!
(1, 0) 526 I beg your pardon.
(1, 0) 527 I didn't understand.
(1, 0) 528 MRS. PRICE
 
(1, 0) 530 Understand, indeed!
(Jinnie) Nice little cloth, indeed, Mrs. Price.
 
(1, 0) 565 They can, Mrs. Richards.
(Mrs Richards) {Ignoring MRS. HOWELLS's remark.}
 
(Mrs Richards) You know what girls are to-day, Mrs. Price.
(1, 0) 568 Very much what they were yesterday, I expect.
(1, 0) 569 Of course, Davy Morgan took us all by surprise up here on the Twmp, so sure we were he'd fixed his mind somewhere else─
(Jinnie) {Rising indignantly.}
 
(1, 0) 573 Oh!
(1, 0) 574 No offence, Miss Richards fach.
(1, 0) 575 No offence.
(1, 0) 576 I was only just saying like; that's all─
(Jinnie) I suppose there's as good fish in the, sea as ever came out of it.
 
(Jinnie) I suppose there's as good fish in the, sea as ever came out of it.
(1, 0) 578 Oh, yes!
(1, 0) 579 Only, of course, in a way of speaking, it means you've got to go on fishing.
(Mrs Richards) {Looking fiercely at MRS. HOWELLS.}
 
(1, 0) 592 Yes.
(1, 0) 593 Here I am, Maggie fach.
(1, 0) 594 Dewch yma, merch i.
(Maggie) I wasn't sure.
 
(Maggie) So I thought I'd better come─
(1, 0) 597 The bread won't be long now.
(Mrs Evans) Five minutes; that's all.
 
(1, 0) 607 Did you say thank you?
(1, 0) 608 MAGGIE
 
(1, 0) 610 Yes.
 
(1, 0) 612 As bread goes about here, mine isn't so bad.
(Mrs Jones) Three small you're baking all the time, I suppose?
 
(Mrs Jones) Three small you're baking all the time, I suppose?
(1, 0) 615 Well─er─yes.
(1, 0) 616 Three small.
(Jinnie) It's lucky, indeed, you are with such a small baking─
 
(1, 0) 621 But it's quite enough twice a week, isn't it, Maggie fach?
 
(Mrs Jones) Well, I find it quite enough baking for a husband, to say nothing of a family─
(1, 0) 624 It is, indeed.
(1, 0) 625 And since you: happened to mention husbands, did Mrs. Evans here: show you the likenesses─
(The Others) {With a slight movement forward.}
 
(The Others) Likenesses?
(1, 0) 628 Yes─her two husbands─
(Mrs Richards) Both of them?
 
(Mrs Richards) Both of them?
(1, 0) 631 Yes, Yanto and Zachariah.
(1, 0) 632 Framed beautiful, too, I can tell you.
(Mrs Jones) Well, indeed, it shows a nice, feeling having them both.
 
(Mrs Jones) Well, indeed, it shows a nice, feeling having them both.
(1, 0) 634 I thought you'd have shown them, Betsi─
(Mrs Price) Yes, where are they?
 
(1, 0) 641 Get them out for five minutes.
(1, 0) 642 I've got an idea.
(Mrs Evans) {Turning to the others.}
 
(1, 0) 649 Now, Maggie, fy nghariad i, stand by the door and tell me if you see anyone coming.
(Maggie) {Running to the door.}
 
(1, 0) 654 And mindia di nawr, Maggie, if anyone was to ask you, it's only three loaves we've baked to-day.
(Maggie) But there were five─
 
(Maggie) But there were five─
(1, 0) 656 P'raps so.
(1, 0) 657 But there's only three if they ask you.
(1, 0) 658 Let me see now─in the corner by the wall.
(1, 0) 659 Dyna fe!
(1, 0) 660 Dyna fe!
(1, 0) 661 There's plenty of lies being told every day to do people harm.
(1, 0) 662 I'm sure the Almighty can excuse just one to help a young married woman baking her first bread.
(1, 0) 663 I've been young myself; and I know what it is.
 
(1, 0) 665 Ach y fi!
(1, 0) 666 No more like bread than I'm like the Queen of England!
 
(1, 0) 669 Anyone coming, Maggie?
(Maggie) Not yet, mam.
 
(Maggie) Not yet, mam.
(1, 0) 671 Nawr ta!
(1, 0) 672 Two of mine.
 
(1, 0) 674 There's no mark on them, thank goodness!
(Maggie) {Advancing towards table.}
 
(Maggie) But that's our bread─
(1, 0) 677 Look you down the road.
(1, 0) 678 The less you see in this old world the less there is to tell lies about.
 
(1, 0) 680 Anybody coming?
(1, 0) 681 MAGGIE.
(1, 0) 682 No.
 
(1, 0) 684 Mrs. Morgan may have brought in two tins of putty.
(1, 0) 685 But if Mrs. Richards is going to look on, Mrs. Morgan will be taking out as good bread as any in this blessed bakehouse to-night.
(1, 0) 686 And that's a slap in the face for old mother Richards!
(1, 0) 687 Now you just run home and forget, Maggie fach.
(1, 0) 688 It takes a woman as wicked as me to deal with a woman as good as Mrs. Richards.
(1, 0) 689 And if anything shifts me off this old box for a bit, it'll be nothing short of sudden death.
 
(1, 0) 692 Cera shathre, Maggie.
(1, 0) 693 Cera waft!
(Mrs Richards) {Without.}
 
(Jinnie) She's coming.
(1, 0) 711 Well, Betsi, how about the bread?
 
(1, 0) 716 Oh!
(1, 0) 717 Come back you have, Mrs. Morgan?
(1, 0) 718 Brought me that bit of yeast, I hope?
(Mrs Morgan) {Going quickly towards MRS. HOWELLS.}
 
(1, 0) 722 Thank you very much.
 
(1, 0) 724 Lovely bit of yeast it is, too.
(1, 0) 725 Here's the bread coming out now, however!
(Mrs Morgan) {Staring fascinated at the oven.}
 
(Mrs Morgan) Is─it─is it ready, Mrs. Evans?
(1, 0) 730 Got mine there, Betsi?
(Mrs Evans) Yes.
 
(Mrs Evans) {Takes out three loaves counting 'one─two─three'; puts them on table at back.}
(1, 0) 734 Three.
(1, 0) 735 That's my lot.
(Mrs Evans) {Turning again to oven.}
 
(Mrs Jones) Ardderchog, yn y wir!
(1, 0) 753 Not so bad, indeed!
(1, 0) 754 What do you say, Mrs. Richards?
(Mrs Richards) {Mincingly.}
 
(Mrs Richards) I'm sure I'm very glad─
(1, 0) 757 I'm sure you are.
(Mrs Morgan) Are these─mine?
 
(1, 0) 761 A nice bit of bread, Mrs. Morgan─a good bit of bread.
(1, 0) 762 Might be a bit more even in the crust, p'raps; but a tidy bit of bread.
(1, 0) 763 I wouldn't be ashamed to see it in my own tins.
(Mrs Evans) That'll be a penny, Mrs. Morgan.
 
(Mrs Morgan) P'raps you'll come up and have a cup of tea with me one day this week, Mrs. Howells?
(1, 0) 774 Well, it's very kind of you asking, Mrs. Morgan.
(Mrs Morgan) Suppose we say to-morrow?
 
(Mrs Morgan) Suppose we say to-morrow?
(1, 0) 776 All right, to-morrow.
(1, 0) 777 Diolch yn fawr.
(Mrs Morgan) I generally have a cup by myself at four o'clock.
 
(1, 0) 781 I think I'd better come at four, Mrs. Morgan.
(Mrs Morgan) Very well.
 
(1, 0) 785 Yes, I'd like a little chat to ourselves.