Western World: Act i
PEGEEN, gruffly.
Didn't you say you were fearing Father Reilly?
SHAWN.
There'd be no harm staying now, I'm thinking, and himself in it too.
PEGEEN.
You wouldn't stay when there was need for you, and let you step off nimble this time when there's none.
SHAWN.
Didn't I say it was Father Reilly. . . .
PEGEEN.
Go on, then, to Father Reilly (in a jeering tone), and let him put you in the holy brotherhoods, and leave that lad to me.
SHAWN.
If I meet the Widow Quin . . .
PEGEEN.
Go on, I'm saying, and don't be waking this place with your noise. (She hustles him out and bolts the door.) That lad would wear the spirits from
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