SECOND BOY
She'll be coming in the fall. We'll be glad to see you,
Ellen.
ELLEN
I have no friends in America.
FIRST GIRL
I have no friends there, either. But I'll get on. You
could get on better than any of us, Ellen.
SECOND GIRL
She's waiting for her school. It will be a little place
by the side of a bog.
THIRD GIRL
_(going to Ellen)_ There would be little change in that.
And isn't it a life altogether different from this life that we have
been longing for? To be doing other work, and to be meeting strange
people. And instead of bare roads and market-towns, to be seeing
streets, and crowds, and theaters.
ELLEN
_(passionately)_ O what do you know about streets and theaters?
You have only heard of them. They are finer than anything you could
say. They are finer than anything you could think of, after a story,
when you'd be A GIRL You'll be going after all, Ellen.
ELLEN
I won't be going.
FIRST GIRL
Well, maybe you'll be down at Gilroy's. We must go now.
_The girls go to the door. Ellen goes with them_.
ONE OF THE BOYS
Phil said that an egg was all he could touch while
he was on the sea.
SECOND BOY
God help us, if that was all Phil could take.
THIRD BOY
Light your pipes now, and we'll go.
_Ellen has parted with the girls. The boys light their pipes at fire.
They go to door, and shake hands with Ellen.
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