Something must be wrong with him.
"Can you understand what you're sayin' ?" she asked.
"Yes," said Chook, anxious to get it over.

"Yer lived in Botany Street this morning, but yer moved to-day, an' now yer live in Foveaux Street in the 'ouse yer picked on Monday." "Do you expect me to believe that ?" cried Mrs Partridge.
"No," said Chook; "but yer will w'en yer go 'ome an' find your 'ouse empty." "An' who moved me ?" "Me an' Liz," said Chook.

"The picnic wasn't till next week, an' Liz an' me thought we'd give yer a surprise." For the first time in her life Mrs Partridge was speechless.

She saw that she had been tricked shamefully.

They had ransacked her house, and laid bare all the secrets of her little luxuries.