Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Countess Cathleen
Scene. - A room with lighted fire, and a door into the open air, through which one sees, perhaps, the trees of a wood, and these trees should be painted in fiat colour upon a gold or diapered sky. The walls are of one colour. The scene should have the effect of missal painting, Mary, & woman of forty years or so is grinding a quern.
Mary
What can have made the grey hen flutter so?
(Teig, a boy of fourteen, is coming in with turf, which he lays beside the hearth)
Teig
They say that now the land is famine struck
The graves are walking.
Mary
There is something that the hen hears.
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