KITTY If stubbornness was a virtue, you'd be a saint, father, and they'd have your picture in all the stained glass windows in every church in the country, like St. Patrick or St. Columkille, himself.
MRS. CORCORAN (laughs at Kitty's answer) Well, well, well, to be sure! You are your father's daughter, Kitty.
DONAL
She's the devil's daughter, I'm thinkin'.
[A loud knocking is heard at the door. Kitty opens it and Denis Delahunty enters. He is dressed in a new frock coat and top hat.
MRS. CORCORAN AND DONAL (as he enters) Welcome, Sir Denis, welcome. (They both shake hands with him) Our heartiest congratulations, and warmest respects.
DONAL (pointing to his own chair) Take my own chair, the best in the house, that I wouldn't offer to the Bishop or the Lord Lieutenant himself, if either of them called to see me. [Sir Denis sits down, but forgets to remove his hat, which is much too small, and tilted to one side. When Kitty sees the strange figure he cuts, she laughs outright, at which her father gets very angry.
DONAL (to Kitty)
What are you laughin' at? You brazen creature!
KITTY (laughing)
Sir Denis has on some one else's tall hat.
SIR DENIS (looks very bored, removes the hat and says rather sadly) You are mistaken, my child. Badly mistaken! 'Tis my own hat. 'Twas the only one in the town that I could get that came near fittin' me, and herself, I mean Lady Delahunty, wouldn't leave me out without it.
KITTY I hope that you feel more comfortable than you look, Sir Denis.