CATHLEEN
[To the women, as they are doing so.]

What way was he drowned?

ONE OF THE WOMEN
The gray pony knocked him into the sea, and he was washed out
where there is a great surf on the white rocks.

[Maurya has gone over and knelt down at the head of the table.
The women are keening softly and swaying themselves with a slow
movement. Cathleen and Nora kneel at the other end of the
table. The men kneel near the door.]

MAURYA
[Raising her head and speaking as if she did not see the people
around her.]

They're all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can
do to me. . . . I'll have no call now to be up crying and
praying when the wind breaks from the south, and you can hear
the surf is in the east, and the surf is in the west, making a
great stir with the two noises, and they hitting one on the
other. I'll have no call now to be going down and getting Holy
Water in the dark nights after Samhain, and I won't care what
way the sea is when the other women will be keening. To Nora].
Give me the Holy Water, Nora, there's a small sup still on the
dresser.

[Nora gives it to her.]