When I pay my rent to-morrow morning
you'll please to understand, Mrs. Bubb, that I've given a week's
notice. I may be a disgrace, but I dare say there's people as won't
be ashamed to let me a room. And that's what I came to say, and now
I've said it, and Mrs. Cheeseman is a witness."
This was spoken so rapidly that it left Polly breathless and with a
very high colour. The elder women looked at each other, and Mrs.
Cheeseman, with a shrimp in her mouth, resumed the attempt at
pacification.
"Now, see 'ere, Polly. You're a young gyell, my dear, and a 'andsome
gyell, as we all know, and you've only one fault, which there ain't
no need to mention it. And we're all fond of you, Polly, that s the
fact. Ain't we all fond of her, Mrs. Bubb?"
"Oh, yes, she's very fond of me!" exclaimed the girl. "And so is my
Aunt Louisa. And to show it they go telling everybody that I ain't
respectable, that I'm a disgrace to a decent 'ouse. D'you think I'll
stand it?" Of a sudden she changed from irony to fierceness. "What
do you mean by it, Mrs.
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