Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse
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master, aren't you?
WILLIE. I've got my name wrote up on the windows, but I dunno so much about being master. MAGGIE (_producing card and moving down_ L. _to_ ALICE). That's his business card, William Mossop, Practical Boot and Shoe Maker, 39a, Oldfield Road, Salford. William Mossop, Master Bootmaker! That's the man you're privileged to call by his Christian name. Aye, and I'll do more for you than let you call him in his name. Yon can both of you kiss him for your brother- in-law to be. WILLIE (_rising_). Nay, Maggie, I'm no great hand at kissing. (VICKEY _and_ ALICE _are much annoyed_.) MAGGIE (_dryly_). I've noticed that. A bit of practice will do you no harm. Come along, Vickey. ALICE (_interposing_). But, Maggie ... a shop of your own-- MAGGIE (_grimly_). I'm waiting, Vickey. WILLIE. I don't see that you ought to drive her to it, Maggie. MAGGIE. You hold your hush. (_Crosses_ R. _to_ VICKEY.) ALICE. But however did you manage it? Where did the capital come from? |
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