Mary (brightening up). Sure she wouldn't get a thousand off you, father?
Kate. There's John McArdle up by Slaney Cross got a hundred pounds took off him by wee Miss Black, the school teacher.
John (uncomfortably). Aye. Heth now, I just call that to mind. And he never got courting her at all, I believe.
Kate. It just served him right. He was always a great man for having five or six girls running after him.
John. And she hadn't much of a case against him.
Kate. The school children were standing by when he asked her in a joking sort of way would she marry him, and the court took their evidence.
John (hopelessly). Aye. Men are always terrible hard on other men where women are concerned.
Kate. And a good job it is, or half the girls would be at the church waiting, and the groom lying at home rueing his bargain. (She goes out by yard door.)
Mary (going up to her father). Father, has she a good case against you?