- Mr. Davis (Shopkeeper): I don't know why people pay money for these, my five-year-old could do better.
- Everett Lewis: Maybe. Maybe he could, but he didn't - Maud did. Brushes, please.
- [slaps the coins on the counter]
- Everett Lewis: You're an idiot.
- Maud Lewis: [sitting in front of Sandra's window and looking out] A window. I love a window. A bird, whizzin' by. Bumblebee.
- [laughs]
- Maud Lewis: It's always different. The whole of life. The whole of life already framed. Right there.
- Everett Lewis: Learned your lesson?
- Maud Lewis: Do you want me here or don't you? H'm? 'Cause I'll go! I'll walk out right now! Well do you want me here or not? I'd like my pay, please. You haven't paid me yet, not once!
- Everett Lewis: I - am - the boss.
- Maud Lewis: Yeah, *you* I know are that.
- Everett Lewis: Who's in charge?
- Maud Lewis: You are.
- Everett Lewis: I bring in the money. Right?
- Maud Lewis: [whispers] Yeah.
- Everett Lewis: Yeah. So who's in charge?
- Maud Lewis: [whispers] Yeah you are.
- Everett Lewis: Yeah! Right. Don't...
- Maud Lewis: [whispers] Yeah.
- Everett Lewis: Forget it.
- Maud Lewis: Can't - Can't forget it.
- Sandra: [returns] I'll pay you. If you make me some more of these cards.
- [pause]
- Maud Lewis: [laughingly] I dunno.
- [pause]
- Maud Lewis: He's in charge, so. Ask him.
- Everett Lewis: Oh! When I was their age did the work o' ten men. Clean this yard, chop wood...
- Mr. Hill: Yeah.
- Everett Lewis: Built that fence.
- Mr. Hill: Yes, but - You were here, around people. Everett? If someone applied for that job? Hire them!
- Maud Lewis: So.
- [pause]
- Maud Lewis: I'm gonna stay, where do I sleep?
- Everett Lewis: Are you gonna follow my rules?
- Everett Lewis: Used to be Captain John Ryan's. But I moved it here, from the wharf.
- [cracks his knuckles]
- Everett Lewis: Guess how many, uh, oxen it took to move it.
- Maud Lewis: Two?
- Everett Lewis: Not two. No. Seven!
- [laughs]
- Everett Lewis: Seven oxen.
- Maud Lewis: [laughing] That's a lotta oxen.
- Maud Lewis: We are, we're under an account. So - you know, it won't be - mix-up.
- [pause]
- Sandra: [to Everett] And how do I know this is right?
- Everett Lewis: Because I said?