MAIRE
Oh, what am I to do, Brian?

BRIAN
Do you think of me at all, Maire?

MAIRE
Indeed I think of you. Until to-day I'd neither laugh nor cry
but on account of you.

BRIAN
I'm building a house, and it will be white and fine, and it's
for you that I'm building the house.

MAIRE
You're going to ask for my promise.

BRIAN
Give me your promise before you go to Ardagh.

_Maire rises_.

MAIRE
If I gave you my promise now, I'd have great delight in coming
back to this place again.

BRIAN
You won't deny me, my jewel of love?

MAIRE