MAIRE
Then you'd go on the roads by yourself?
CONN
Sure I did it before, Maire.
MAIRE Ah, but do you not remember the prayers that mother used to say for us to get some shelter? Do you not remember how proud and glad we were when we come by a place of our own?
CONN
The shelter was for Anne and yourself. What had I to do with it?
MAIRE The Moynihans are not the sort to make us feel strangers in the place.
CONN The place was your own, Maire, and you gave it to your sister rather than see her waiting years and years.
MAIRE
I came to give it to her after I saw how hard I was on yourself.
CONN Listen, my jewel, even if the Moynihans had nothing to do with the place, what would Conn Hourican the fiddler be doing in this country?
MAIRE Ah, there are many you might play to; there are lots that know about music. There's Michael Gilpatrick and John Molloy—
CONN
And that's all, Maire. MAIRE You might go to Flynn's an odd time.