MAGGIE. It's as bad as I thought it was. Willie, you wed me.
ADA (_weakly_). It's daylight robbery. (_Moves
slightly_ L.)
WILLIE. Aren't you going to put up a better fight for me than
that, Ada? You're fair giving me to her.
MAGGIE. Will Mossop, you take your orders from me in this shop.
I've told you you'll wed me.
WILLIE. Seems like there's no escape. (_Sits in arm-chair_.)
ADA (_angry_). Wait while I get you to home, my lad. I'll
set my mother on to you.
MAGGIE. Oh, so it's her mother made this match!
WILLIE. She had above a bit to do with it.
MAGGIE. I've got no mother, Will.
WILLIE. You need none, neither.
MAGGIE. Well, can I sell you a pair of clogs, Miss Figgins?
ADA. No. Nor anything else.
MAGGIE. Then you've no business here, have you? (_Moves up to
doors and opens them_.)
ADA (_going to him_). Will, are you going to see me ordered
out?
WILLIE. It's her shop, Ada.
ADA. You mean I'm to go like this?
WILLIE. She means it.
ADA. It's cruel hard. (_Moves towards doors_.)
MAGGIE. When it comes to a parting, it's best to part sudden and
no whimpering about it.
ADA. I'm not whimpering, and I'm not parting, neither. But he'll
whimper to-night when my mother sets about him.
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