NORA
What stick?

CATHLEEN
The stick Michael brought from Connemara.

MAURYA
[Taking a stick Nora gives her.]

In the big world the old people do be leaving things after them
for their sons and children, but in this place it is the young
men do be leaving things behind for them that do be old.

[She goes out slowly. Nora goes over to the ladder.]

CATHLEEN
Wait, Nora, maybe she'd turn back quickly. She's that sorry,
God help her, you wouldn't know the thing she'd do.

NORA
Is she gone round by the bush?

CATHLEEN
[Looking out.]

She's gone now. Throw it down quickly, for the Lord knows when
she'll be out of it again.

NORA