"Well, mother, you know none of the Naylors are Methodists; that sets
them down with Greenwood. The Naylors are all right. Fred Naylor has
been very kind to me."

"Did you speak to John about them?"

"Greenwood had already spoken and John was angry and got into a passion
at a simple business proposal they made."

"John was right, he was that. I was in a passion myself, when I heard
of their proposal--downright impudence, I call it."

"Nay, mother. They offered good money for what they asked. There was no
impudence in that. It was just business."

"Naylors have no good money, not they. The kind they do have would
blacken and burn Hatton's hands to touch. Thy father ran the whole kith
and kit of the Naylors out of Hatton village the very year of thy birth.
He wouldn't have them in his village if he was alive and while I am lady
of Hatton Manor they are not coming back here. I will see to that."

"There is a new generation of Naylors now, and----"

"They are as bad and very likely worse than all before them. Families
that don't grow better grow worse. Greenwood says they are worse; but
I'm not standing on what he says. Thy father despised them, that is a
fact I can rely on and work from."

"Father is dead, and he----"