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1He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility for his entry had been followed by a pause of talk. His face was
2heated. To appear natural he pushed his cap back on his head and planted his elbows on the table. The mechanic and the
3two work-girls examined him point by point before resuming their conversation in a subdued voice. The girl brought him a
4plate of grocer's hot peas, seasoned with pepper and vinegar, a fork and his ginger beer. He ate his food greedily and
5found it so good that he made a note of the shop mentally. When he had eaten all the peas he sipped his ginger beer and
6sat for some time thinking of Corley's adventure. In his imagination he beheld the pair of lovers walking along some
7dark road; he heard Corley's voice in deep energetic gallantries and saw again the leer of the young woman's mouth. This
8vision made him feel keenly his own poverty of purse and spirit. He was tired of knocking about, of pulling the devil by
9the tail, of shifts and intrigues. He would be thirty-one in November. Would he never get a good job? Would he never
10have a home of his own? He thought how pleasant it would be to have a warm fire to sit by and a good dinner to sit down
11to. He had walked the streets long enough with friends and with girls. He knew what those friends were worth: he knew
12the girls too. Experience had embittered his heart against the world. But all hope had not left him. He felt better
13after having eaten than he had felt before, less weary of his life, less vanquished in spirit. He might yet be able to
14settle down in some snug corner and live happily if he could only come across some good simple-minded girl with a little
15of the ready. He paid twopence halfpenny to the slatternly girl and went out of the shop to begin his wandering again.
16He went into Capel Street and walked along towards the City Hall. Then he turned into Dame Street. At the corner of
17George's Street he met two friends of his and stopped to converse with them. He was glad that he could rest from all his
18walking. His friends asked him had he seen Corley and what was the latest. He replied that he had spent the day with
19Corley. His friends talked very little. They looked vacantly after some figures in the crowd and sometimes made a
20critical remark. One said that he had seen Mac an hour before in Westmoreland Street. At this Lenehan said that he had
21been with Mac the night before in Egan's. The young man who had seen Mac in Westmoreland Street asked was it true that
22Mac had won a bit over a billiard match. Lenehan did not know: he said that Holohan had stood them drinks in Egan's. He
23left his friends at a quarter to ten and went up George's Street. He turned to the left at the City Markets and walked
24on into Grafton Street. The crowd of girls and young men had thinned and on his way up the street he heard many groups
25and couples bidding one another good-night. He went as far as the clock of the College of Surgeons: it was on the stroke
26of ten. He set off briskly along the northern side of the Green hurrying for fear Corley should return too soon. When he
27reached the corner of Merrion Street he took his stand in the shadow of a lamp and brought out one of the cigarettes
28which he had reserved and lit it. He leaned against the lamp-post and kept his gaze fixed on the part from which he
29expected to see Corley and the young woman return. His mind became active again. He wondered had Corley managed it
30successfully. He wondered if he had asked her yet or if he would leave it to the last. He suffered all the pangs and
31thrills of his friend's situation as well as those of his own. But the memory of Corley's slowly revolving head calmed
32him somewhat: he was sure Corley would pull it off all right. All at once the idea struck him that perhaps Corley had
33seen her home by another way and given him the slip. His eyes searched the street: there was no sign of them. Yet it was
34surely half-an-hour since he had seen the clock of the College of Surgeons. Would Corley do a thing like that? He lit
35his last cigarette and began to smoke it nervously. He strained his eyes as each tram stopped at the far corner of the
36square. They must have gone home by another way. The paper of his cigarette broke and he flung it into the road with a
37curse. Suddenly he saw them coming towards him. He started with delight and, keeping close to his lamp-post, tried to
38read the result in their walk. They were walking quickly, the young woman taking quick short steps, while Corley kept
39beside her with his long stride. They did not seem to be speaking. An intimation of the result pricked him like the
40point of a sharp instrument. He knew Corley would fail; he knew it was no go. They turned down Baggot Street and he
41followed them at once, taking the other footpath. When they stopped he stopped too. They talked for a few moments and
42then the young woman went down the steps into the area of a house. Corley remained standing at the edge of the path, a
43little distance from the front steps. Some minutes passed. Then the hall-door was opened slowly and cautiously. A woman
44came running down the front steps and coughed. Corley turned and went towards her. His broad figure hid hers from view
45for a few seconds and then she reappeared running up the steps. The door closed on her and Corley began to walk swiftly
46towards Stephen's Green. Lenehan hurried on in the same direction. Some drops of light rain fell. He took them as a
47warning and, glancing back towards the house which the young woman had entered to see that he was not observed, he ran
48eagerly across the road. Anxiety and his swift run made him pant. He called out: "Hallo, Corley!" Corley turned his head
49to see who had called him, and then continued walking as before. Lenehan ran after him, settling the waterproof on his
50shoulders with one hand. "Hallo, Corley!" he cried again. He came level with his friend and looked keenly in his face.
51He could see nothing there. "Well?" he said. "Did it come off?" They had reached the corner of Ely Place. Still without
52answering, Corley swerved to the left and went up the side street. His features were composed in stern calm. Lenehan
53kept up with his friend, breathing uneasily. He was baffled and a note of menace pierced through his voice. "Can't you
54tell us?" he said. "Did you try her?" Corley halted at the first lamp and stared grimly before him. Then with a grave
55gesture he extended a hand towards the light and, smiling, opened it slowly to the gaze of his disciple. A small gold
56coin shone in the palm.
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