S.Have you not yet sent your younger daughter to school?
They say your eldest could neither read nor write at fourteen years of age.
DOMINIE.

My daughters always have a private teacher in the house, in connection with whom I instruct them in music, in order that their literary education shall occupy fewer hours, and that they shall have time left for exercise in the open air to invigorate the body; while other children are exhausted with nine hours a day at schools and institutes, and are obliged to pay for this with the loss of their health and the joyousness of youth.
MRS.

S.It is very well known that your daughters are obliged to play the whole day long.
DOMINIE.

And not all night too?
You probably might explain their skill in that way.

I am astonished that you have not heard that too, since you have picked up so many shocking stories about me and my daughters.
MRS.