MAIRE Anne, you're a great one for keeping up the story that girls are always thinking about men.
ANNE
And so they are. Just as men are always thinking about girls.
MAIRE You'd make a good ribbonman.[4] You'd put a face on anything you said.
[Footnote 3: Celidh, pronounced cayley, a visit.]
[Footnote 4: A ribbonman—a member of a secret agrarian society.]
ANNE
Ribbonism and secret societies were denounced off the altar.
MAIRE Goodness! The men will begin to think they've secrets worth telling.
ANNE
Have you secrets worth telling, Brian?
MAIRE
I daresay he has. There are foolish women in the world.
ANNE
Are you coming to Moynihan's, Brian?