MAIRE What do I say? I say you're not a rambler now, though indeed you behave like one.
CONN
You have something against me, Maire.
MAIRE
I have.
CONN
What has she against me, Anne?
MAIRE
All the promises you broke.
CONN
You were listening to what the town is saying.
MAIRE What does the town know? Does it know that you stripped us of stock and crop the year after we came here? Does it know that Anne and myself, two girls of the roads, had to struggle ever since to keep a shelter?
CONN (bitterly) It knows that. It couldn't help but know it, maybe. But does it know all the promises you made and broke?
CONN (angrily) Hush now; I'll hear no more. I went my own way always, and I'll go my own way always.
He goes to the entrance, and remains with his back turned. Maire goes to Anne.