la Bay, He'll have pity on you, and put sight
into your eyes.

MARTIN DOUL -- [taking off his hat.] -- I'm ready now, holy father.

SAINT -- [taking him by the hand.] -- I'll cure you first, and then I'll
come for your wife. We'll go up now into the church, for I must say
a prayer to the Lord. (To Mary Doul, as he moves off.) And let you be
making your mind still and saying praises in your heart, for it's a
great wonderful thing when the power of the Lord of the world is brought
down upon your like.

PEOPLE -- [pressing after him.] -- Come now till we watch.

BRIDE. Come, Timmy.

SAINT -- [waving them back.] -- Stay back where you are, for I'm not
wanting a big crowd making whispers in the church. Stay back there,
I'm saying, and you'd do well to be thinking on the way sin has brought
blindness to the world, and to be saying a prayer for your own sakes
against false prophets and heathens, and the words of women and smiths,
and all knowledge that would soil the soul or the body of a man.

[People shrink back. He goes into church. Mary Doul gropes half-way
towards the door and kneels near path. People form a group at right.]

TIMMY. Isn't it a fine, beautiful voice he has, and he a fine, brave man
if it wasn't for the fasting?

BRIDE. Did you watch him moving his hands?

MOLLY BYRNE. It'd be a fine thing if some one in this place could pray
the like of him, for I'm thinking the water from our own blessed well
would do rightly if a man knew the way to be saying prayers, and then
there'd be no call to be bringing water from that wild place, where, I'm
told, there are no decent houses, or fine-looking people at all.

BRIDE -- [who is looking in at door from right.] -- Look at the great
trembling Martin has shaking him, and he on his knees.

TIMMY -- [anxiously.] -- God help him... What will he be doing when he
sees his wife this day? I'm thinking it was bad work we did when we let
on she was fine-looking, and not a wrinkled, wizened hag the way she is.

MAT SIMON. Why would he be vexed, and we after giving him great joy and
pride, the time he was dark?

MOLLY BYRNE -- [sitting down in Mary Doul's seat and tidying her hair.]
-- If it's vexed he is itself, he'll have other things now to think on
as well as his wife; and what does any man care for a wife, when it's
two weeks or three, he is looking on her face?

MAT SIMON. That's the truth now, Molly, and it's more joy dark Martin
got from the lies we told of th