ou meet any one?

MAIRE
Indeed I did. I met James Moynihan.

ANNE
James had to go early. They're building at his place.

MAIRE
Indeed they ought to let James build a house for himself. ANNE
Some day they will, Maire.

MAIRE But
we must not let some day be a far day.

ANNE
_(hesitatingly)_ I think I'll show you something.

MAIRE What is it, daughter?

_Anne rises and goes to the dresser. She opens drawer. Maire
watches her_.

MAIRE
_(waiting)_ I made a good girl out of you, anyway.

ANNE
You wouldn't let me use stroller words when we were on the road.
Do you mind of that?

MAIRE
I kept you to the mannerly ways. I have that to my credit.

ANNE
_(showing Maire the verses)_ Read that, Maire. It was James
that made it.

MAIRE
It's a song, I declare.

ANNE
No, Maire, it's a poem.

MAIRE
A poem? O, that's grand!

_She begins to read it eagerly_.

ANNE
And, Maire--

MAIRE
Well?

ANNE
James says it's about me.

MAIRE
About you? O, I wish some one would put me into a song, or into a poem;
I suppose a poem would be best. You might ask James. No, I'll coax him
myself. Ah, no I won't, Anne.

ANNE
You may keep it for a while, but don't let any one know.

MAIRE
He must be very fond of you, and I thinking him so quiet.

ANNE
_(happy)_ He has grand thoughts about me.

MAIRE
Well, you'll be seeing him to-night.

ANNE
I don't know that I'll go out to-night.

MAIRE
Sure Grace Moynihan asked us to go over.

ANNE
I'm shy of going into James'.

MAIRE
Anne, you're the only one of us that has any manners. Maybe
you're right not to go.

ANNE
I'll stay in to-night.

MAIRE
Then Brian and myself will go to Moynihan's.

ANNE
You'd get an indulgence, Maire, if you missed a dance.

MAIRE
Would it be so hard to get an indulgence? _(She takes flowers
from dresser and puts them in window)_ The house looks nice this
evening. We'll keep Brian here for a while, and then we'll go to
Moynihan's.

ANNE
Father will be going out to-night.

MAIRE
_(turning suddenly from window)_ Will he?

ANNE
He will. I think I ought to stay in. Maire, father was in only
a while before you the night before last and another night.

MAIRE
O, and I thinking things were going so well with us. He's
drinking again.

ANNE
He's going to Flynn's again.

MAIRE
Disgracing us again.

ANNE
I'll stay in to-night.

MAIRE
I'm tired of this.

ANNE
Don't say it that way, Maire.

MAIRE
What will pe