Did you know that… (5)

Yorkshire housewives can be heard talking among themselves. “Well, I don’t know… What do you think, Dot? – You know what I say, Doris. I say that Springer fellow he’s never done an honest day's work in his life” But the Monkhouse is oblivious:

“Did you know, ladies, that Langland Springer is truly a scholar of the strange and the mysterious?