Anna Crilly is at window.
Crofton Crilly enters from the shop._
CRILLY
It's all right, Marianne.
MRS. CRILLY
Well?
CRILLY
The Guardians insisted on appointing an outside person to
take stock of the workhouse stores. It's the new regulation, you know.
Well, the job lay between young Dobbs and Albert, and Albert has got
it. I don't say but it was a near thing.
MRS. CRILLY
I hope Albert will know what to do.
CRILLY
He'll want to watch the points. Where's the Master?
MRS. CRILLY
He's in his room upstairs.
CRILLY
Was he not out this morning?
MRS. CRILLY
He's not dressed yet.
CRILLY
He was more particular when he was in the workhouse.
ANNA
I know who those two children are now. They are the new
gas-manager's children.
CRILLY
He's a Scotchman.
ANNA
And married for the second time. Mother, Mrs. Dunne is going to
the races. Such a sketch of a hat.
MRS. CRILLY
It would be better for her if she stayed at home and
looked after her business.
ANNA
She won't have much business to look after soon. That's the
third time her husband has come out of Farrell's public-house.
CRILLY
He's drinking with the Dispensary Doctor. Companions! They're
the curse of this town, Marianne. _(He sits down)_
ANNA
She's walked into a blind man, hat and all. He's from the Workhouse.
CRILLY
He's the blind piper out of the workhouse, Myles Gorman.
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