That's what you think.
ELLEN
Maybe it is.
MATT
Ellen Douras! Ellen Douras! A farmer's roof will be high enough
for you some day.
ELLEN
May I never see the day. Go back, go back. Make it up with
your father. Your father will be glad of a labourer.
MATT
Maybe you won't be glad if I go back; thinking on what you've
said.
ELLEN
I said too much. We don't know each other at all. Go back. You
have made your choice.
_She goes up to room left._
MATT
Very well, then. God above, am I to be treated everywhere like
a heifer strayed into a patch of oats? Neither man nor woman will
make me put up with this any longer. _(Going to door)_ When Ellen
Douras wants me, she knows the place to send to. _(He stands at door.
There is no sound from room. Going back he speaks loudly)_ I'll be
waiting two days or three days to hear from Ellen Douras.
_There is no sound. Matt goes out. The room door is thrown open,
and Ellen comes down._
ELLEN
_(furiously)_ Two days or three days he'll wait for me. As if
I'd go into Murtagh Cosgar's house. As if I'd go into any farmer's
house. As if I'd get married at all, and the world before me. Two
days or three days you'll wait. Maybe it's lonesome, weary years
you'll be waiting, Matt Cosgar.
CURTAIN
ACT III
_Interior of Murtagh Cosgar's. It is towards sunset. Murtagh
Cosgar is standing before the door looking out.
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