Shawn Early: There is a surer way than that.
Mrs. Broderick: What way?
Shawn Early: It takes madness to find out madness. Let you call to the cracked woman that should know.
Hyacinth Halvey: Come hither, Mary, and tell us is there any one of your own sort in this shed?
Mrs. Broderick: That is a good thought. It is only themselves that recognise one another.
Bartley Fallon: Do not ask her! I will not leave it to her!
Mrs. Broderick: Sure, she cannot say more than what yourself has said against yourself.
Bartley Fallon: I'm in dread she might know too much, and be telling out what is within in my mind.
Hyacinth Halvey: That's foolishness. These are not the ancient times, when Ireland was full of haunted people.
Bartley Fallon: Is a man having a wife and three acres of land to be put under the judgment of a witch?