Dramatis Personae
SCENE I.
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 flat colour upon a gold or diapered
sky. The walls are of one colour. The scene should have the
effect of missal Painting. Mary, a woman of forty years or so,
is grinding a quern.
SCENE II.
A wood with perhaps distant view of turreted house
at one side, but all in flat colour, without light and shade and
against a diafiered or gold background.
Countess Cathleen comes in leaning UpOn Aleel's arm. Oona follows
them.
SCENE III.
Hall in the house of Countess Cathleen. At the Left an
oratory with steps leading up to it. At the Right a tapestried
wall, more or less repeating the form of the oratory, and a great
chair with its back against the wall. In the Centre are two or
more arches through which one can see dimly the trees of the
garden. Cathleen is kneeling in front of the altar in the
oratory; there is a hanging lighted lamp over the altar. Aleel
enters.
SCENE IV.
A wood near the Castle, as in Scene 2. The Spirits pass one by one carrying bags.
SCENE V.
The house of Shemus Rua. There is an alcove at the back
with curtains; in it a bed, and on the bed is the body of Mary
with candles round it. The two Merchants while they speak put a
large book upon a table, arrange money, and so on.
NOTES.
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