WILLIE. You've no _right_ to expect I care whether you sink
or swim.
MAGGIE. Will!
WILLIE. What's to do? You told me to take a high hand, didn't
you?
(MAGGIE _sits down_ R.)
ALICE. And we're to stay here and watch Maggie and Will abusing
father when he's ill.
(_Positions now_: MAGGIE _sitting down_ R., HOBSON
_sitting in armchair_, ALICE _standing behind and between
them_, VICKEY _standing_ L. _of table_.)
WILLIE. No need for you to stay.
HOBSON. That's a true word, Will Mossop.
VICKEY. Father! You take his side against your flesh and blood.
HOBSON. That doesn't come too well from you, my girl. Neither of
you would leave your homes to come to care for me. You're not for
me, so you're against me.
ALICE. We're not against you, father. We want to stay and see
that Will deals fairly by you.
HOBSON. Oh, I'm not capable of looking after myself, amn't I?
I've to be protected by you girls lest I'm overreached, and
overreached by whom? By Willie Mossop! I may be ailing, but I've
fight enough left in me for a dozen such as him, and if you're
thinking that the manhood's gone from me, you can go and think it
somewhere else than in my house.
VICKEY. But father--dear father--
HOBSON. I'm not so dear to you if you'd to think twice about
coming here to do for me, let alone jibbing at it the way you
did.
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