Are ye coortin' any this weather Mr. Taylor? TAYLOR. [Taken aback. Then decides to laugh it off.] Well--eh--no. I'm not doin' much that way. MRS. GRANAHAN. [Incredulously.] Oh indeed. Well I heerd otherwise. Its full time ye were lookin' about for a wife. You'll be gettin' well on past thirty soon. TAYLOR. [Fidgeting uneasily.] Oh I'm time enough for a couple of years or more. I want to look round me a bit. MRS. GRANAHAN. Well ye better look sharp, for you'll soon be getting too ould for gettin' any sort of a dasint girl. [Inquisitively.] Ha'e ye anyone in your eye yet? TAYLOR. I have an account to pay your good man Mrs. Granahan. MRS. GRANAHAN. Two poun' ten is due. [Thinking.] Aye. But I suppose you'll be now in what I would call a good way o' doin'. TAYLOR. There was a five per cent. dividend this half year. The creamery's goin' on well. [Searching in pocket and getting out account.] Two pounds, nine and six, ma'am, beggin' your pardon. MRS. GRANAHAN. Ach sure sixpence is naither here nor there to a creamery. [Pauses.] If that's the way you are, you could be married in a year's time and-- TAYLOR. [Evidently desirous to lead conversation off this topic.] Here's the money, ma'am. [He lays it down on the table and counts it out.] You'll do as well as Mr. Granahan, I suppose. You take all to do with the money part I think. MRS. GRANAHAN. Yes I do. You were at the lecture last Monday? TAYLOR. [Alarmed.] What the divil-- [Suddenly to Mrs. Granahan and genially.] Yes. Could you oblige me with a receipt ma'am? MRS. GRANAHAN. Surely. Here Ellen, get me the pen and ink. [Ellen goes into room.] I suppose now there were some nice young weemin there--eh Mr. Taylor? TAYLOR. [Uneasily.] Yes. And don't forget the stamp ma'am. MRS. GRANAHAN. Ach sure a penny stamp's what you always carry wi' ye. [Confidentially.] I think shame on ye Mr. Taylor, triflin' wi' the poor girls. There's no excuse for a man o' your age. TAYLOR. [Fidgeting.] Well, well, I--Here's a stamp ma'am. [Impatiently.] I'm young enough yet. I don't want to marry yet awhile. MRS. GRANAHAN.