Claire Keegan

Yes, to just go daily about what you do without regard and in that fashion makes it less likely to confront.

Yeah, that would have given him away, didn't it?

I think he wanted a child.

And it's the next thing he asks her, and he asks her that instantly.

Yeah, to have a baby.

Also, he pulls the curtains after he notices that there were no children.

And there were children in the opening paragraph of this story.

You know, I think they both, both of them want a child.

Yeah, and so they were willing to stay together even in... Well, I think that's the doorway into having children is to get married in our society.

And it's very difficult anyway to raise a child on your own.

Here, you know, they say, if you want to know me, come live with me.

Have you heard that?

Also, he didn't help her move.

There's no scene where he goes to help her.

He goes to help her.

Or lift her things out of the car or the moving van, up the stairs, nothing like that.

indeed mrs sabine i went out for a drink with one of your colleagues this week she began oh yes she said cynthia took me to the shelburne i didn't know that you two knew each other

We don't really, she said.

She just handles the funding for some of our work at the gallery.

In any case, we wound up sharing a bottle of Chablis and started talking about men, Irish men.