Mrs. C To-morrow will see us in Limerick Jail, and this house in the hands of the sheriff.

Hard Mother, heaven guide and defend me! let me rest for a while—you don’t know all yet, and I have not the heart to tell you.

[Crosses L.

Mrs. C With you, Hardress, I can bear anything—anything—but your humiliation and your unhappiness—

Hard I know it, mother, I know it. [Exit, L. 1 E. Music.

Danny appears at window, R., in flat.

Danny Whisht—missiz—whisht.

Mrs. C [L. C.] Who’s there?

Danny It’s me, sure, Danny—that is—I know the throuble that’s in it. I’ve been through it all wid him.

Mrs. C You know, then?