 
 <prompt> CHAPTER XXXIX

Doctor Crofts don turn out

"You don hear the tori, my dear, from the Small House?" Mrs Boyce ask her husband, some two or three days after Mrs Dale visit the squire. Na one o'clock, and the parish pastor don come from him work to chop with him wife and children.

"Wetin be the tori?" Mr Boyce ask, because he never hear anything.

"Mrs Dale and the girls dey comot from the Small House; dem dey go stay for Guestwick." 

"Mrs Dale dey go? Abeg abeg!" the vicar talk. "Wetin fit carry am go Guestwick? She no dey pay any rent for where she dey."

"I fit assure you say na true, my dear. I dey with Mrs Hearn just now, and she hear am from Mrs Dale mouth. Mrs Hearn talk say she never shock reach like that before. E sure say dem get quarrel."

Mr Boyce just dey quiet, dey remove him dirty shoes before him chop. News wey important like this, wey concern the social life of him parish, never reach am for many days, and e hard for am to believe am so quick.

"Mrs Hearn talk say Mrs Dale talk with strong mouth about am, like say she don decide say nothing fit change am."

"And she talk why?" 

"Well, not really. But Mrs Hearn talk say she fit understand say dem don yan words between her and the squire. E no fit be anything else, you sabi. E fit get something to do with that man, Crosbie." <response>: 1. no
2. no
3. Mr Boyce
4. Guestwick
5. no
6. her girls
7. the Small House;
8. her husband
9. Mrs Hearn
10. say Mrs Dale talk am firmly about am 