ALBERT
I wish I had a job and I'd wait on the pension.
CRILLY
Oh, you'll be all right. The grandfather is seeing about your
job.
ALBERT
If the grandparent gets me that job I'll want two new suits
at least.
CRILLY
'Pon my soul, Albert, I don't know what's to be done. (
_His mind wanders off)_ I suppose the abstracts have to go out in
the morning.
ALBERT
They have. And damn all the old man has done to them.
CRILLY
The Guardians hear that he's late in the mornings, Albert,
and some of them are beginning to question his fitness to check the
stores.
ALBERT
The old man ought to resign.
CRILLY
I suppose he ought. I'm not wishing for his resignation myself,
Albert. You know your mother regards it as a settled thing that he
should come and live with us.
ALBERT
The mother and Anna are preparing for the event.
CRILLY
How's that, Albert?
ALBERT
Mother has James Scollard in her eye for the new Master.
CRILLY
Right enough! Scollard would get it, too, and then he would
marry Anna.
ALBERT
That's the arrangement, I expect.
CRILLY
It mightn't be bad. Scollard mightn't want Nancy's money
under that arrangement. Still I don't like the idea of the old man
living in the house.
ALBERT
The mother would never think of letting him take himself and
his pension anywhere else.
CRILLY
I don't think she would.
ALBERT
I wouldn't be surprised if he did go somewhere else.
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