JUDITH:
The boy
Is Ruth’s.

JIM:
Well, I’ve come into a family,
And no mistake--a happy family:
And I was born to be a family-man.
They’ll never turn against their bairn’s granddad:
And I’m in luck.

JUDITH:
You cannot bide here, Jim.

JIM:
And who the hell are you, to say me nay?

JUDITH:
The boy’s grandmother.

JIM:
Ay: and so the grandam’s
To sit in the ingleneuk, while granddad hoofs it?

JUDITH:
When you left Krindlesyke, you quitted it
For good and all.

JIM:
And yet, I’m here again,