RIDERS TO THE SEA
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
Getting the bundle from the loft.
The young priest said he’d be passing to-morrow, and we might go down and speak to him below if it’s Michael’s they are surely.
CATHLEEN
Taking the bundle.
Did he say what way they were found?
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