Danny Give me that paper in your breast?
[Boat floats off slowly, R.
Eily I can’t—I’ve sworn never to part with it! You know I have!
Danny Eily, that paper stands between Hardress Cregan and his fortune; that paper is the ruin of him. Give it, I tell yez.
Eily Take me to the priest; let him lift the oath off me. Oh, Danny, I swore a blessed oath on my two knees, and would ye ax me to break that?
Danny [Seizes her hands.] Give it up, and don’t make me hurt ye.
Eily I swore by my mother’s grave, Danny. Oh! Danny dear, don’t. Don’t, acushla, and I’ll do anything. See now, what good would it be? sure, while I live I’m his wife. [Music changes.
Danny Then you’ve lived too long. Take your marriage lines wid ye to the bottom of the lake.
[He throws her from rock backwards into the water, L. C., with a cry; she reappears, clinging to rock.
Eily No! save me! Don’t kill me! Don’t, Danny, I’ll do anything—only let me live.