MAIRE
Oh, what am I to do, Brian?
BRIAN
Do you think of me at all, Maire?
MAIRE Indeed I think of you. Until to-day I'd neither laugh nor cry but on account of you.
BRIAN I'm building a house, and it will be white and fine, and it's for you that I'm building the house.
MAIRE
You're going to ask for my promise.
BRIAN
Give me your promise before you go to Ardagh.
Maire rises.
MAIRE If I gave you my promise now, I'd have great delight in coming back to this place again.
BRIAN
You won't deny me, my jewel of love?
MAIRE Oh, I'm very fond of Aughnalee. I feel that I was reared in the place. I'd like to live all my life in the place.