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PADRAIC arrives back at his own cottage, overlooking the grey * sea, his dwarf donkey, Jenny, in garden (red ribbon & bell * around her neck), his small pony, two cows & a calf in the * next door field, his younger sister SIOBHAN, hanging washing.
SIOBHAN
What are you doing home? Brother? What
are you doing home?
PADRAIC
I knocked on ColmSonnyLarry and he’s
just sitting there.
SIOBHAN
Sitting there doing what?
PADRAIC
Sitting there doing nothing. Smoking.
SIOBHAN
Was he asleep?
PADRAIC
He was smoking, Siobhan! How do you
smoke in your sleep, like?!
SIOBHAN
It wasn’t just lit and in his hand?
PADRAIC
No. It was lit, it was up to his gob,
it was down from his gob.
SIOBHAN
Have ye been rowing?
PADRAIC
We haven’t been rowing.
(pause)
I don’t think we’ve been rowing.
(pause)
Have we been rowing?
(pause)
Why wouldn’t he answer the door to me?
SIOBHAN
Maybe he just doesn’t like you no more.
SIOBHAN smiles, takes the empty basket back inside, leaving PADRAIC worried, looking out across the sea.