Thank you kindly, lady of the house.

NORA
Sit down now, stranger, and be taking your rest.

TRAMP
[Filling a pipe and looking about the room.] I've walked a great
way through the world, lady of the house, and seen great wonders,
but I never seen a wake till this day with fine spirits, and good
tobacco, and the best of pipes, and no one to taste them but a
woman only.

NORA
Didn't you hear me say it was only after dying on me he was when
the sun went down, and how would I go out into the glen and tell
the neighbours, and I a lone woman with no house near me?

TRAMP
[Drinking.] There's no offence, lady of the house?

NORA
No offence in life, stranger. How would the like of you, passing
in the dark night, know the lonesome way I was with no house near
me at all?

TRAMP
[Sitting down.] I knew rightly. (He lights his pipe so that
there is a sharp light beneath his haggard face.) And I was
thinking, and I coming in through the door, that it's many a lone
woman would be afeard of the like of me in the dark night, in a