There does be a power of young men floating round in the sea,
and what way would they know if it was Michael they had, or
another man like him, for when a man is nine days in the sea,
and the wind blowing, it's hard set his own mother would be to
say what man was it.

CATHLEEN
It's Michael, God spare him, for they're after sending us a bit
of his clothes from the far north.

[She reaches out and hands Maurya the clothes that belonged to
Michael. Maurya stands up slowly, and takes them into her
hands. NORA looks out.]

NORA
They're carrying a thing among them and there's water dripping
out of it and leaving a track by the big stones.

CATHLEEN
[In a whisper to the women who have come in.]

Is it Bartley it is?

ONE OF THE WOMEN
It is surely, God rest his soul.

[Two younger women come in and pull out the table. Then men
carry in the body of Bartley, laid on a plank, with a bit of a
sail over it, and lay it on the table.]