Blind Man. Your wedding dinner! Do not be mocking me! There is no company here.
Mary. Oh, he is not mocking you; he would not do a thing like that. There is no company here; for we have nothing in the house to give them.
Blind Man. But you gave it to me! Is it the truth you are speaking? Am I the only person that was asked to your wedding?
Mary. You are. But that is to the honour of God; and we would never have told you that, but Martin let slip the word from his mouth.
Blind Man. Oh, and I eat your little feast on you, and without knowing it.
Mary. It is not without a welcome you eat it.
Martin. I am well pleased you came in; you were more in want of it than ourselves. If we have a bare house now, we might have a full house yet; and a good dinner on the table to share with those in need of it. I'd be better off now; but all the little money I had I laid it out on the house, and the little patch of land. I thought I was wise at the time; but now we have the house, and we haven't what will keep us alive in it. I have the potatoes set in the garden; but I haven't so much as a potato to eat. We are left bare, and I am guilty of it.
Mary. If there is any fault, it is on me it is; coming maybe to be a drag on Martin, where I have no fortune at all. The little money I gained in service, I lost it all on my poor father, when he took sick. And I went back into service; and the mistress I had was a cross woman; and when Martin saw the way she was treating me, he wouldn't let me stop with her any more, but he made me his wife. And now I will have great courage, when I have to go out to service again.
Blind Man. Will you have to be parted again?
Martin. We will, indeed; I must go as a spailpin fanac, to reap and to dig the harvest in some other place. But Mary and myself have it settled we'll meet again at this house on a certain day, with the blessing of God. I'll have the key in my pocket; and we'll come in, with a better chance of stopping in it. You'll have your own cows yet, Mary; and your calves and your firkins of butter, with the help of God.