Sally goes out.
CORNELIUS I'll call Ellen down to you. (He goes to the room door and calls) I'm going herding myself. Herding is pleasant when you have thoughts with you.
He takes up the rod and goes out. The girls begin whispering, then chattering.
FIRST GIRL Sure I know. Every night I'm dreaming of the sea and the great towns. Streets and streets of houses and every street as crowded as the road outside the chapel when the people do be coming from Mass. I could watch the crowd in the street; I would think it better than any sight I ever knew.
SECOND GIRL
And the shops and the great houses.
SECOND BOY There's no stir here. There's no fine clothes, nor fine manners, nor fine things to be seen.
THIRD BOY There's no money. One could never get a shilling together here. In America there's money to have and to spend and to send home.
THIRD GIRL
Every girl gets married in America.
Ellen comes down.
ELLEN
I'm glad you came. I have tea ready for you. I can't go to
Gilroy's to-night.