CONN
Sure I know that. I wouldn't bring the shadow of a disgrace
near ye.
MAIRE
If the father isn't well spoken of, how could the house be
well spoken of? They're big drinkers that go to Flynn's, and it's
easy for the fiddler to get into the way of drinking.
CONN
I won't go to Flynn's when you put it that way.
MAIRE
I'll ask for no word. I'll let you know the real way of the
house, and then trust you.
CONN
You're a good girl, Maire. I should have been said by you.
MAIRE
From this out there will be dances at the schoolhouse and the
like of that. You could be playing at them. CONN None of the oul'
people go to the like, and the young don't understand me nor my ways.
God knows will I ever play again. That thought is often with me of
late, and it makes me very lonesome.
MAIRE
That's foolishness.
CONN
I was very lonesome when you left me. You don't know how I was
tempted, Maire. There was Brian MacConnell putting on his coat to go
to Flynn's, and talking of the Sligomen.
MAIRE
_(startled)_ And was it to Flynn's that Brian MacConnell went?
CONN
It was Brian that brought me to Flynn's.
MAIRE
Was it Brian MacConnell that brought you to Flynn's?
CONN
It was.
MAIRE
_(passionately)_ You must never go to Flynn's.
CONN
I'm ashamed of myself. Didn't I say that, Maire?
MAIRE
_(with hardness)_ You must never go again.
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