ANNE
I'll comb out your hair for you, and you'll look well enough.
MAIRE
Then you're expecting Brian MacConnell?
ANNE
It's likely he'll come in to see if there's anything to be done.
MAIRE
I suppose he'll come in. Gracious, how did father get out?
He's coming up the path.
ANNE
_(coming to Maire)_ Father's not up, surely? Maire, be easy
with Brian MacConnell when he comes in.
MAIRE
Father's coming up the path. Anne!
ANNE
What is it, Maire?
MAIRE
Father wasn't in at all, last night.
ANNE
Then he went to Flynn's, after all.
MAIRE
Ay, he went to Flynn's.
_She goes to Anne_.
ANNE
O Maire, what will become of us all?
MAIRE
I don't know.
_Maire goes to the settle, and sits down_.
ANNE
What will we do with him at all?
_Conn Hourican comes in_.
CONN
God save you! _(He looks around)_ Well, I came back to ye.
ANNE
You did, God help us! And we depending on you. It's the bad way
you always treated us.
CONN
Did you hear what happened to me, before you attack me?
ANNE
What happened to you? What always happens to you?
CONN
I wonder that a man comes in at all! The complaints against him
are like the Queen's Speech, prepared beforehand.
ANNE
Ever since I can remember, you treated us like that. Bringing
us into drinking-places and we little. It's well we got to know
anything, or got into the way of being mannerly at all.
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