ELLEN
He suffered more than any of them. And it's little we'll get out of
the day.
CORNELIUS
It's a great thing to have prophesied it, even. We'll be here to see
a great change.
ELLEN
There will be no change to make things better!
CORNELIUS
Will you be taking that school, Ellen?
ELLEN
I'll wait a while.
_Sally coming in; she is hurried_.
SALLY
_(breathlessly)_ Oh, God save you, Cornelius. Tell me, is my
father gone? I dread going back and he there! It was all over that
baste of a sow that has kept me slaving all through the spring till
I don't know whether greens or potatoes is the fittest for her!
CORNELIUS
He didn't go, Sally. I went down a bit of the road myself with the men.
SALLY
Oh, God help me! And I'll have to be going back to boil meal
for her now. How are you, Ellen. _(She goes to Ellen)_
ELLEN
Sit down for a while, Sally; it's a long time since I was speaking
to you.
_Sally sits down beside Ellen_.
CORNELIUS
I'll leave this paper where they won't be looking for pipe-lights.
There are things in that paper I'd like to be saying. _(He takes a
newspaper out of his pocket and goes to room right)_
ELLEN
_(to Sally, who has been watching Cornelius)_ Tell me, Sally,
are they always that busy in your house? Is your father as harsh as
they say?
SALLY
Father 'ud keep us all working. He's a powerful great man.
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