CHAPTER XXIII 

THE HAVERLEY FINANCES AND MRS. ROBINSON 

"It bothers the head off of me," said Molly Tooney to Mike, as she sat eating her supper in the Cobhurst kitchen, "to try to foind out what thim two upstairs is loike, anyway, 'specially her. I've been here nigh onto two weeks, now, and I don't know her no betther than when I fust come. For the life of me I can't make out whether she's a gal woman or a woman gal. Sometimes she's one and sometimes t'other. And then there's he. Why didn't he marry and settle before he took a house to himself? And in the two Sundays I've been here, nather of thim's been to church. If they knowed what was becomin' to thim, they'd behave like Christians, if they are heretics." 

Mike sat at a little table in the corner of the kitchen with his back to Molly, eating his supper. He had enough of the Southern negro in him to make him dislike to eat with white people or to turn his face toward anybody while partaking of his meals. But he also had enough of a son of Erin in him to make him willing to talk whenever he had a chance. Turning his head a little, he asked, "Now look a here, Molly; if a man's a heretic, how can he be a Christian?" 

"There's two kinds of heretics," said Molly, filling her great tea-cup for the fourth time, and holding the teapot so that the last drop of the strong decoction should trickle into the cup; "Christian heretics and haythen heretics. You're one of the last koind yoursilf, Mike, for you never go nigh a church, except to whitewash the walls of it. And you'll never git no benefit to your own sowl, from Phoebe's boardin' the minister, nather. Take my word for that, Mike." 
Where did Mike sit?
What is the place like?
Was there anyone else?
Who?
What he was doing?
What geographical location influenced him?
Is he presumably a black person?
Did he like eating with white folks?
Does it seem Molly is white?
But does he like to talk if he gets a chance?
From whom he got that habit?
Did he eventually talk to her?
Did he question a person's belief if that person was a heretic?
Which specific belief system he was talking about?
According to her how many types of heretics are there?
What are they?
What category she put him in?
Did he ever go to the church?
For what reason?
Did he ever say his prayer there?
at a little table
at a little table
kitchen
 kitchen
yes
Molly
Molly
Molly
eating
eating
South
South
Southern negro in him
Southern negro in him
no
dislike to eat with white people 
yes
 turn his face toward anybody
yes
him willing to talk whenever he had a chance
his father
son of Erin in him
yes
Turning his head a little, he asked,
yes
if a man's a heretic, how can he be a Christian?
Christianity
Christian
two
 two
Christian heretics and haythen heretics
Christian heretics and haythen heretics
haythen heretics
haythen heretics
yes
 except to whitewash
to whitewash the walls
to whitewash the walls
no
you never go nigh a church, except to whitewash