BRIDGET.

These are the clothes you are going to wear when you marry Delia Cahel to-morrow.

MICHAEL.

I had forgotten that.

[He looks at the clothes and turns towards the inner room, but stops at the sound of cheering outside.

PETER.

There is the shouting come to our own door. What is it has happened?

[Neighbours come crowding in, PATRICK and DELIA with them.

PATRICK.

There are ships in the Bay; the French are landing at Killala!