Some come to the table and some remain near the door.
A GIRL (at table, to Ellen) They say that a peat fire like that will seem very strange to us after America. Bridget wondered at it when she came back. "Do civilized people really cook at the like of them?" said she.
A BOY It's the little houses with only three rooms in them that will seem strange. I'm beginning to wonder myself at their thatch and their mud walls.
ANOTHER GIRL
Houses in bogs and fields. It was a heart-break trying
to keep them as we'd like to keep them. A GIRL (at door) Ah, but
I'll never forget Gortan and the little road to Aughnalee.
ANOTHER GIRL I think I'll be lonesome for a long time. I'll be thinking on my brothers and sisters. I nursed and minded all the little ones.
FIRST BOY
A girl like you, Ellen, is foolish to be staying here.
SECOND BOY
She'll be coming in the fall. We'll be glad to see you,
Ellen.
ELLEN
I have no friends in America.
FIRST GIRL I have no friends there, either. But I'll get on. You could get on better than any of us, Ellen.
SECOND GIRL She's waiting for her school. It will be a little place by the side of a bog.