I could watch the crowd in the street; I would think it
better than any sight I ever knew.
SECOND GIRL
And the shops and the great houses.
SECOND BOY
There's no stir here. There's no fine clothes, nor fine
manners, nor fine things to be seen.
THIRD BOY
There's no money. One could never get a shilling together
here. In America there's money to have and to spend and to send home.
THIRD GIRL
Every girl gets married in America.
_Ellen comes down_.
ELLEN
I'm glad you came. I have tea ready for you. I can't go to
Gilroy's to-night.
_Some come to the table and some remain near the door_.
A GIRL
_(at table, to Ellen)_ They say that a peat fire like that
will seem very strange to us after America. Bridget wondered at it
when she came back. "Do civilized people really cook at the like of
them?" said she.
A BOY
It's the little houses with only three rooms in them that will
seem strange. I'm beginning to wonder myself at their thatch and
their mud walls.
ANOTHER GIRL
Houses in bogs and fields. It was a heart-break trying
to keep them as we'd like to keep them. A GIRL _(at door)_ Ah, but
I'll never forget Gortan and the little road to Aughnalee.
ANOTHER GIRL
I think I'll be lonesome for a long time. I'll be
thinking on my brothers and sisters. I nursed and minded all the
little ones.
FIRST BOY
A girl like you, Ellen, is foolish to be staying here.
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