[She goes out singing “The night before Larry was stretched.”
CURTAIN
ACT II.
SCENE: The same. Early morning. Sarah is washing her face in an old bucket; then plaits her hair. Michael is tidying himself also. Mary Byrne is asleep against the ditch.
SARAH
to Michael, with pleased excitement.—Go over, now, to the bundle beyond, and you’ll find a kind of a red handkerchief to put upon your neck, and a green one for myself.
MICHAEL
getting them.—You’re after spending more money on the like of them. Well, it’s a power we’re losing this time, and we not gaining a thing at all. (With the handkerchief.) Is it them two?
SARAH
It is, Michael. (She takes one of them.) Let you tackle that one round under your chin; and let you not forget to take your hat from your head when we go up into the church. I asked Biddy Flynn below, that’s after marrying her second man, and she told me it’s the like of that they do.
[Mary yawns, and turns over in her sleep.
SARAH
with anxiety.—There she is waking up on us, and I thinking we’d have the job done before she’d know of it at all.