RIDERS TO THE SEA
CATHLEEN
Michael is after being found in the far north, and when he is found there how could he be here in this place?
MAURYA
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.
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