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Is Mrs. Evans in please? |
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(Mrs Evans) {With a gesture of irritation.} |
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(Voice) In the bakehouse she is, Mrs. Morgan. |
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Oh! |
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Thank you. |
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(Mrs Evans) Dewch mewn! |
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(Mrs Evans) Dewch mewn! |
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Oh, Mrs. Evans─ |
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(Mrs Evans) It's you, Mrs. Morgan, is it? |
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Is it─is it ready yet, Mrs. Evans? |
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(Mrs Evans) Ready? |
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(Mrs Evans) It will take nearly another hour yet. |
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Another hour? |
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I was thinking, Mrs. Evans, p'raps─ |
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(Mrs Evans) {Looking at clock.} |
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Mrs. Evans─ |
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P'raps you─would you mind just having a look to see how it's getting on? |
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(Mrs Evans) {Surprised.} |
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Oh! |
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I didn't know. |
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(Mrs Evans) And you didn't mark your two loaves either, Mrs. Morgan─ |
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(Mrs Evans) And you didn't mark your two loaves either, Mrs. Morgan─ |
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Mark them? |
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(Mrs Evans) {Coming forward.} |
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(Mrs Evans) Put on a bit of a pattern or p'raps stick your initials in with a fork, so as to know them when they come out. |
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Oh dear, dear! |
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I didn't think. |
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Does it matter? |
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(Mrs Evans) I've put them in the corner by the wall. |
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(Mrs Evans) It's your first bread, I suppose, Mrs. Morgan? |
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Yes. |
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My husband always had it home-made before we got married; so I─so I thought I'd try. |
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(Mrs Evans) Quite right, too, Mrs. Morgan. |
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(Mrs Evans) If the angels in Heaven started baking to-morrow, they couldn't make a lighter crust than Mary Ann Howells's! |
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You didn't happen to notice the dough when you put it in? |
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Did it─did it look as if it ever would be bread, Mrs. Evans? |
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(Mrs Evans) Well, yn y wir now, I was so busy I didn't pay much notice. |
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(Mrs Evans) Well, yn y wir now, I was so busy I didn't pay much notice. |
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My husband is so fond of home-made bread, Mrs. Evans. |
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But of course, being brought up in the millinery─ |
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(Mrs Evans) Yes, yes. |
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(Mrs Evans) You've been married nearly a month now? |
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A month next Monday, Mrs. Evans. |
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(Mrs Evans) Well, mawredd, how time goes to be sure! |
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(Mrs Evans) And you went away for a week didn't you? |
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Ten days, Mrs. Evans. |
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(Mrs Evans) To the Mumbles, wasn't it? |
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(Mrs Evans) Mrs. Jones Shop Flannel was telling me. |
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Yes, to the Mumbles. |
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He's very fond of the seaside is my husband. |
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(Mrs Evans) I went so far as the Mumbles once myself. |
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Have you buried him long, Mrs. Evans? |
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(Mrs Evans) {Pathelically.} |
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(Mrs Evans) Poor Yanto now was more worldly. |
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You've had an awful lot of trouble, Mrs. Evans, losing both of them like that. |
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(Mrs Evans) A lot of trouble, Mrs. Morgan fach─a lot of trouble. |
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(Mrs Evans) If I was you, Mrs. Morgan, I'd have one done of your Davy── |
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Plenty of time to think of that, I hope, Mrs. Evans. |
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(Mrs Evans) I hope so, indeed. |
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(Mrs Evans) And very nice parlours you've got in Tredegar Terrace, too, there's no denying. |
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Oh, yes! |
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We're very comfortable, I'm sure. |
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(Mrs Evans) You're settling down on the Twmp here now, Mrs. Morgan, no doubt? |
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(Mrs Evans) Bit strange at first, I suppose, after being down there in the Paris House in Dyffryn Street? |
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We're getting on very well, thank you, Mrs. Evans. |
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But I must say there are some people who might find something better to do than running down their neighbours─ |
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(Mrs Evans) {Consolingly.} |
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(Mrs Evans) But after all, Mrs. Morgan, there's very few pay any real attention to Mrs. Richards the Checkweigher─ |
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Oh! |
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I don't want to mention any names, Mrs. Evans. |
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(Mrs Evans) No, no! |
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I'm sure I've got no grudge against Miss Richards. |
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(Mrs Evans) Well no! |
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Are they baking here with you, Mrs. Evans? |
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(Mrs Evans) Oh, yes! |
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(Mrs Evans) They've got their bread in to-night. |
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To-night? |
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Will they be coming here then, Mrs. Evans? |
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(Mrs Evans) Mrs. Richards, or else Jinnie, or p'raps both. |
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Jinnie Richards makes very good bread, of course? |
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(Mrs Evans) Oh! |
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(Mrs Evans) Pretty fair indeed! |
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What time do they come, Mrs. Evans? |
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(Mrs Evans) It all depends. |
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D'you think, Mrs. Evans─as a favour─you could take my two loaves out first? |
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(Mrs Evans) But they're far in─close to the wall. |
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(Mrs Evans) Didn't I tell you? |
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And ten o'clock is the earliest possible. |
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You couldn't just─ |
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(Mrs Evans) Ten o'clock sharp! |
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I'll be back just before ten then. |
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(Mrs Evans) Dyna fe. |
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(Mrs Howells) Noswath dda, Mrs. Morgan. |
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Good night, Mrs. Howells. |
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(Mrs Howells) It's Mrs. Morgan! |
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I thought it might be ready now, Mrs. Evans─ |
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(Mrs Evans) But, mawredd, Mrs. Morgans fach, it's only twenty-five to ten. |
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(Mrs Evans) But, mawredd, Mrs. Morgans fach, it's only twenty-five to ten. |
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That's all? |
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But, Mrs. Evans, couldn't you just look? |
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(Mrs Howells) {Kindly.} |
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Well, in a way, yes. |
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My husband is very fond of home-made, Mrs. Howells. |
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(Mrs Evans) Shows his good sense, Mrs. Morgan. |
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(Mrs Evans) Shows his good sense, Mrs. Morgan. |
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And of course, it's a woman's business to get her husband everything he wants. |
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(Mrs Howells) {Smiling.} |
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(Mrs Howells) Er─how long did you say you'd been married? |
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Nearly a month. |
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I─I─you're making fun, Mrs. Howells. |
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(Mrs Howells) But it isn't a woman's business to get her husband everything he wants. |
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No? |
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What is it then? |
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(Mrs Howells) {Reflectively.} |
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(Mrs Howells) Well, I'd say now it's her business to keep him from wanting everything she can't get. |
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What d'you mean? |
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I don't think I understand. |
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(Mrs Howells) Never you mind then. |
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(Mrs Evans) She always had different ideas from anybody else. |
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But some men are different to others─ |
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(Mrs Howells) I wonder! |
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(Mrs Evans) Well, there wasn't much alike about my two─beyond a coat and trousers. |
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And my husband's an exception─ |
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(Mrs Howells) Every woman's husband is an exception, Mrs. Morgan─-when she's only been married a month. |
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I'll come back at ten, Mrs. Evans. |
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(Mrs Evans) Ten sharp it comes out. |
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(Mrs Evans) Ten sharp it comes out. |
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And if─Mrs. Evans─suppose it isn't all right, p'raps you'd just put it aside without anybody seeing it? |
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(Mrs Evans) I'll do my best, whatever. |
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Yes. |
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That's what I mean─the Richardses. |
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(Mrs Howells) Don't you vex about them, Mrs. Morgan. |
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(Mrs Howells) They're not worth it. |
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It's all very well for Jinnie Richards, that's been at home all her life. |
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But if it came to making bonnets─ |
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(Mrs Howells) Aay. |
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(Mrs Howells) Then she'd see; and, if you'll excuse me mentioning it, that was a grand little bonnet you made for our Sarah─ |
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I'd rather make fifty of them than go through this day again. |
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(Mrs Evans) We've all had to go through it─the best of us; even Mrs. Howells here. |
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(Mrs Howells) What did you: use, Mrs. Morgan, yeast or barm? |
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Yeast, Mrs. Howells. |
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I go it at the Top Shop last night─ |
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(Mrs Howells) {Rising.} |
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Yes, that's where I'm dealing. |
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Is there anything─ |
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(Mrs Howells) Did you try it, Mrs. Morgan? |
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(Mrs Howells) Did you try it, Mrs. Morgan? |
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Try it? |
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(Mrs Howells) Yes. |
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(Mrs Howells) Mix it with warm water and sprinkle flour on it, and put it on the hob to see if it would rise? |
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No! |
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Is that what I ought─ |
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It's spoiled! |
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It's all spoiled! |
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I know it's all spoiled. |
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Don't let them see it, Mrs. Evans! |
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Don't let them see it─not that Jinnie Richards! |
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(Mrs Howells) Let me see. |
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(Mrs Howells) Have you got any of that yeast left? |
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Yes; a lot. |
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I thought I'd keep it for next time. |
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(Mrs Howells) Keep it? |
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I couldn't find it at first. |
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(Mrs Howells) {Taking yeast.} |
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Is─it─is it ready, Mrs. Evans? |
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(Mrs Howells) Got mine there, Betsi? |
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Oh! |
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(Mrs Evans) Two, isn't it─bake-house tins, and no mark? |
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Ye-s-s. |
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(Mrs Evans) Here we are then! |
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(Mrs Howells) I'm sure you are. |
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Are these─mine? |
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(Mrs Howells) {Rising, takes loaves from tins with apron, taps them and examines them critically.} |
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(Mrs Evans) That'll be a penny, Mrs. Morgan. |
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Oh, yes! |
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I was forgetting. |
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P'raps you'll come up and have a cup of tea with me one day this week, Mrs. Howells? |
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(Mrs Howells) Well, it's very kind of you asking, Mrs. Morgan. |
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(Mrs Howells) Well, it's very kind of you asking, Mrs. Morgan. |
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Suppose we say to-morrow? |
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(Mrs Howells) All right, to-morrow. |
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(Mrs Howells) Diolch yn fawr. |
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I generally have a cup by myself at four o'clock. |
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But, if you'd rather, my husband has tea at six. |
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(Mrs Howells) {Significantly.} |
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(Mrs Howells) I think I'd better come at four, Mrs. Morgan. |
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Very well. |
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We can have a little chat to ourselves. |
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(Mrs Howells) {Smiling kindly.} |
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Good night, Mrs. Richards; good night, Miss Richards. |