"Kate said that after coming back from Enniskerry, Michael Dunne
said: 'Is this the wedding party?' and that Ned jumped off the
car, and said: 'To be sure. Amn't I the wedded man.' And they had
half a barrel of porter."

"Never mind the drink," said the priest, "what then?"

"There was dancing first and fighting after. Pat Connex and Peter
M'Shane were both there. You know Pat plays the melodion, and he
asked Peter to sing, and Peter can't sing a bit, and he was
laughed at. So he grabbed a bit of stick and hit Pat on the head,
and hit him badly, too. I hear the doctor had to be sent for."

"That is always the end of their dancing and drinking," said the
priest. "And what happened then, what happened? After that they
went home?"

"Yes, your reverence, they went home."

"Mary Byrne went home with her own people, I suppose, and Ned went
back to his home."

"I don't know, your reverence, what they did."

"Well, what else did Kate Kavanagh tell you?"

"She had just left her brother and Mary, and they were going
towards the Peak. That is what Kate told me when I met her on the
road."