"I dunno as I hold with play-actin'.

Brazen painted women some o' them actresses is and the words as is put in their mouths to say--well--there----" "I know--I know," returned Lavinia hurriedly and with heightened colour.
"But that isn't their fault, and after all, it's not so bad as what one hears in front--in the gallery----" "What, the trulls and the trapes and the saucy footmen! It made my ears tingle when Hannah took me to Drury Lane.

I longed to take a stick in my hand an' lay it about 'em.

So you're a play-actin' miss are ye?
I'm sorry for it." "I can't help that, Mrs.Higgins.One must do something--besides there's good and bad folk wherever you go." "Aye, an' ye haven't got to go from here neither.

A pack o' bad 'uns, men and women, come to Hampstead.