ACT II
Interior of Martin Douras'. The entrance is at back left. There is a dresser against wall back; a table down from dresser; room doors right and left. The fireplace is below the room door right; there are stools and chairs about it. There is a little bookcase left of the dresser, and a mirror beside it. There are patriotic and religious pictures on the wall. There are cups and saucers on table, and a teapot beside fire. It is afternoon still. Ellen Douras is near the fire reading. Cornelius comes in slowly.
CORNELIUS I left the men down the road a bit. We ought to take great pride out of this day, Ellen. Father did more than any of them to bring it about.
ELLEN He suffered more than any of them. And it's little we'll get out of the day.
CORNELIUS It's a great thing to have prophesied it, even. We'll be here to see a great change.
ELLEN
There will be no change to make things better!
CORNELIUS
Will you be taking that school, Ellen?
ELLEN
I'll wait a while.
Sally coming in; she is hurried.
SALLY (breathlessly) Oh, God save you, Cornelius. Tell me, is my father gone? I dread going back and he there! It was all over that baste of a sow that has kept me slaving all through the spring till I don't know whether greens or potatoes is the fittest for her!