Miss Joyce: Cracked Mary it is, that is after coming back this day from the asylum.
Hyacinth Halvey: I never saw her, I think.
Shawn Early: The creature, she was light this long while and not good in the head, and at the last lunacy came on her and she was tied and bound. Sometimes singing and dancing she does be, and sometimes troublesome.
Miss Joyce: They had a right to keep her spancelled in the asylum. She would begrudge any respectable person to be walking the street. She'd hoot you, she'd shout you, she'd clap her hands at you. She is a blight in the town.
Hyacinth Halvey: There is a lad along with her.
Shawn Early: It is Davideen, her brother, that is innocent. He was left rambling from place to place the time she was put within walls.
(Cracked Mary and Davideen come in. Miss Joyce clings to Hyacinth's arm.)
Cracked Mary: Give me a charity now, the way I'll be keeping a little rag on me and a little shoe to my foot. Give me the price of tobacco and the price of a grain of tea; for tobacco is blessed and tea is good for the head.
Shawn Early: Give out now, Davideen, a verse of "The Heather Broom." That's a splendid tune.
Davideen: (Sings.)