MATT Don't be going yet. I'll be with you, when you're going. _Martin sits down_. MURTAGH COSGAR _(to Matt)_ You'll be getting married, I suppose, if you stay? MATT Maybe I will. MURTAGH COSGAR _(bitterly)_ In the houses that are now, the young marry where they have a mind to. It's their own business, they say. MATT Maybe it is their own business. I'm going to marry Ellen Douras, if she'll have me. MURTAGH COSGAR Ellen is a good girl, and clever, I'm told. But I would not have you deal before you go into the fair. MATT I'm going to marry Ellen Douras. MURTAGH COSGAR Her father is here, and we can settle it now. What fortune will you be giving Ellen, Martin? That 100 pounds that was saved while you were in Maryborough gaol? _Martin shakes his head_. MATT _(stubbornly)_ I'm going to marry Ellen Douras, with or without a fortune. MURTAGH COSGAR _(passionately)_ Boy, your father built this house. He got these lands together. He has a right to see that you and your generations are in the way of keeping them together. MATT I'll marry Ellen Douras, with or without a fortune. MURTAGH COSGAR Marry her, then. Marry Ellen Douras. MATT Now, Martin, we mustn't let an hour pass without going to her. _(He takes Martin's arm, and they go to the door)_ MURTAGH COSGAR Marry Ellen Douras, I bid you. Break what I have built, scatter what I have put together. That is what all the young will be doing, _Ellen Douras comes to the door as Matt and Martin reach it_. MATT Ellen! _She shrinks back_. ELLEN It's my father I came to speak to. MURTAGH COSGAR _(going to the door, and drawing the bolt from the half-door)_ When you come to my house, Ellen Douras, you are welcome within. _Ellen comes in_, ELLEN It's right that I should speak to you all. Matt Cosgar, I am going from here. MATT Ellen, Ellen, don't be saying that. Don't be thinking of the few words between us. It's all over now. Father agrees to us marrying. Speak, father, and let her hear yourself say it. ELLEN I can't go into a farmer's house. MATT You said that out of passion. Don't keep your mind on it any longer. ELLEN It's true, it's true. I can't go into a farmer's house. This place is strange to me. MATT How can you talk like that? I'm always thinking of you. ELLEN I've stayed here long enough. I want my own way; I want to know the world. MATT If you go, how will I be living, day after day? The heart will be gone out of me. MURTAGH COSGAR You'll be owning the land, Matt Cosgar. MATT _(passionately)_ I've worked on the land all my days. Don't talk to me about it now. _Ellen goes to Martin. Murtagh goes up to the door, and then turns and speaks_.