ANNE Sure, you wouldn't compare a young boy like Connor Gilpatrick with Brian MacConnell? MAIRE I wouldn't have turned my head towards Brian. O! never expect kindness from men. Why did you let me stay on? I'm afraid to look at myself in the glass to-day. _(She goes over to the mirror)_ You were hard on me, Anne, yesterday. ANNE I didn't like the way you talked to father. MAIRE I think I'm getting different to what I used to be. Well, I've reason to be sorry for what I did yesterday. _(She is at window)_ Was Peggy Carroll vexed at the way I went on? ANNE She never took her eyes off the pair of you. You know she's very fond of Connor. MAIRE Anne, never remind me of my foolishness, I'm heartsick of myself to-day. ANNE I'll comb out your hair for you, and you'll look well enough. MAIRE Then you're expecting Brian MacConnell? ANNE It's likely he'll come in to see if there's anything to be done. MAIRE I suppose he'll come in. Gracious, how did father get out? He's coming up the path. ANNE _(coming to Maire)_ Father's not up, surely? Maire, be easy with Brian MacConnell when he comes in. MAIRE Father's coming up the path. Anne! ANNE What is it, Maire? MAIRE Father wasn't in at all, last night. ANNE Then he went to Flynn's, after all. MAIRE Ay, he went to Flynn's. _She goes to Anne_. ANNE O Maire, what will become of us all? MAIRE I don't know. _Maire goes to the settle, and sits down_. ANNE What will we do with him at all? _Conn Hourican comes in_. CONN God save you! _(He looks around)_ Well, I came back to ye. ANNE You did, God help us! And we depending on you. It's the bad way you always treated us. CONN Did you hear what happened to me, before you attack me? ANNE What happened to you? What always happens to you? CONN I wonder that a man comes in at all! The complaints against him are like the Queen's Speech, prepared beforehand. ANNE Ever since I can remember, you treated us like that. Bringing us into drinking-places and we little. It's well we got to know anything, or got into the way of being mannerly at all. CONN You know too much. I always said that. Is James Moynihan coming here to-day? ANNE No, he isn't coming here to-day. CONN Well, we can do without him. There's something to be done to-day. I said I'd do the bit of mowing, and I was thinking of that all along. _(He looks at Maire)_ Did you hear what happened to me, Maire? MAIRE It's no matter at all. CONN I went over to Flynn's, I may tell you. ANNE In troth we might have known that. CONN But did you hear what happened to me? ANNE How could we hear? It was Maire went to the door, and there you were coming up the path; and we thinking you were in bed, resting yourself.