And Mis' Alexander, she says she'll run home and tell her husband right off.
And all the time Elmira is moaning in that chair.

One woman says Elmira orter have a cup o' tea, which she'll lay off her bunnet and go to the kitchen and make it fur her.

But Elmira says no, she can't a-bear to think of tea, with poor Hennerey a-hanging out there in the shop.

But she was kind o' enjoying all that fuss being made over her, too.

And all the other women says: "Poor thing!" But all the same they was mad she said she didn't want any tea, for they all wanted some and didn't feel free without she took it too.