Rector
Swallow - shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?
Swallow
Popular feeling's rising.
Rector
Balstrode, I'd like you to come.
Balstrode
I warn you we shall waste our time.
Rector
I'd like your presence just the same.
Mrs. Sedley
Little do the suspects know,
I've the evidence. I've a clue.
Chorus
Now we will find out the worst.
Swallow (points to the nieces who join the crowd)
No ragtail no bobtail if you please.
Boles (pushes them away)
Back to the gutter - you keep out of this.
Rector
Only the men, the women stay.
Swallow
Carter Hobson, fetch the drum.
Summon the Borough to Grimes's hut.
Chorus
To Grimes's hut!
To Grimes's hut!
(Hobson sounds his drum and the men line up behind Swallow, the Rector and Mrs.
Sedley. - Balstrode lags behind. Behind them come the rest of the crowd.)
Swallow - shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?
Swallow
Popular feeling's rising.
Rector
Balstrode, I'd like you to come.
Balstrode
I warn you we shall waste our time.
Rector
I'd like your presence just the same.
Mrs. Sedley
Little do the suspects know,
I've the evidence. I've a clue.
Chorus
Now we will find out the worst.
Swallow (points to the nieces who join the crowd)
No ragtail no bobtail if you please.
Boles (pushes them away)
Back to the gutter - you keep out of this.
Rector
Only the men, the women stay.
Swallow
Carter Hobson, fetch the drum.
Summon the Borough to Grimes's hut.
Chorus
To Grimes's hut!
To Grimes's hut!
(Hobson sounds his drum and the men line up behind Swallow, the Rector and Mrs.
Sedley. - Balstrode lags behind. Behind them come the rest of the crowd.)