MRS. CORCORAN (as she keeps knitting)
And her father's, too.
DONAL
What's that you're saying, woman?
MRS. CORCORAN I said that 'twas from your side of the family that she brought the stubbornness.
DONAL How dare you say that, and in my presence, too? The devil blast the one belongin' to me was ever stubborn. She's her mother's daughter, I'm tellin' you.
MRS. CORCORAN Whatever is gentle in her comes from me, and what's stubborn and contrary comes from you and yours.
DONAL (in a rage) God be praised and glorified! What's gentle in her, will you tell me? She that pleases herself in everythin'. (To Kitty) I'll knock the stubbornness out of you, my young lady, before we will have another full moon.
MRS. CORCORAN Indeed and you won't, then, nor in ten full moons, either.
DONAL (as he walks up and down the kitchen) Woman! woman! woman! You are all alike! Every damn one of you, from the Queen to the cockle picker.
KITTY You have no right to marry me to any one against my will.
DONAL And is it the way I'd be leavin' you marry some good-for-nothing idle jackeen, who couldn't buy a ha'porth of bird seed for a linnet or a finch, let alone to keep a wife? That's what a contrary, headstrong, uncontrollable whipster like you would do, if you had your own way. But, be God, you will have little of your own way while I am here and above ground.