Theme of Poverty

• "No got a pair of knickers to her name" - Lily about Edie.
• "It's a midden looking out on other middens. It's got rats and bugs" - Jenny about the house.
• "Disgracing me in front of the hale shop" - Jenny to Maggie.
• "He saw me hame from the dancing, he'd take one look at the close and that's the last I'd see of him" - Jenny about the house.
• "Someday we'll have a wireless, son" - Maggie to Ernest.
• "It's rotten, this hoose. Rotten. Damp." - Jenny about the house.
• "I didnae ask tae be born. No into this midden." - Jenny