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MRS HIGGINS [at last, conversationally] Will it rain, do you think?

LIZA The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to

move slowly in an easterly direction There are no indications of any

great change in the barometrical situation

FREDDY Ha! ha! hofully funny!

LIZA What is wrong with that, young !

MRS EYNSFORD HILL I'm sure I hope it won't turn cold There's so h our whole fa

LIZA [darkly] My aunt died of influenza: so they said

MRS EYNSFORD HILL [clicks her tongue syic tone] But it's my belief they done the old

woman in

MRS HIGGINS [puzzled] Done her in?

LIZA Y-e-e-e-es, Lord love you! Why should she die of influenza? She

coh the year before I saw her with ht she was dead;

but in down her throat til she came to so

sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon

MRS EYNSFORD HILL [startled] Dearup the indictth in her have to die of influenza? What become of her new straw

hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it; and what I say

is, them as pinched it done her in

MRS EYNSFORD HILL What does doing her in mean?