] -- Maybe I'd have time to
walk down and get the big shawl I have below, for I do look my
best, I've heard them say, when I'm dressed up with that thing on
my head.
TIMMY. You'd have time surely.
MARTIN DOUL -- [listening.] Whisht now. . . . I hear people
again coming by the stream.
TIMMY -- [looking out left, puzzled.] -- It's the young girls I
left walking after the Saint. . . . They're coming now (goes up
to entrance) carrying things in their hands, and they walking as
easy as you'd see a child walk who'd have a dozen eggs hid in her
bib.
MARTIN DOUL -- [listening.] -- That's Molly Byrne, I'm thinking.
[Molly Byrne and Bride come on left and cross to Martin Doul,
carrying water-can, Saint's bell, and cloak.]
MOLLY -- [volubly.] -- God bless you, Martin. I've holy water
here, from the grave of the four saints of the west, will have
you cured in a short while and seeing like ourselves.
TIMMY -- [crosses to Molly, interrupting her.] -- He's heard
that. God help you. But where at all is the Saint, and what way
is he after trusting the holy water with the likes of you?
MOLLY BYRNE. He was afeard to go a far way with the clouds is
coming beyond, so he's gone up now through the thick woods to say
a prayer at the crosses of Grianan, and he's coming on this road
to the church.
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