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1But Joe said it didn't matter and made her sit down by the fire. He was very nice with her. He told her all that went on
2in his office, repeating for her a smart answer which he had made to the manager. Maria did not understand why Joe
3laughed so much over the answer he had made but she said that the manager must have been a very overbearing person to
4deal with. Joe said he wasn't so bad when you knew how to take him, that he was a decent sort so long as you didn't rub
5him the wrong way. Mrs Donnelly played the piano for the children and they danced and sang. Then the two next-door girls
6handed round the nuts. Nobody could find the nutcrackers and Joe was nearly getting cross over it and asked how did they
7expect Maria to crack nuts without a nutcracker. But Maria said she didn't like nuts and that they weren't to bother
8about her. Then Joe asked would she take a bottle of stout and Mrs Donnelly said there was port wine too in the house if
9she would prefer that. Maria said she would rather they didn't ask her to take anything: but Joe insisted. So Maria let
10him have his way and they sat by the fire talking over old times and Maria thought she would put in a good word for
11Alphy. But Joe cried that God might strike him stone dead if ever he spoke a word to his brother again and Maria said
12she was sorry she had mentioned the matter. Mrs Donnelly told her husband it was a great shame for him to speak that way
13of his own flesh and blood but Joe said that Alphy was no brother of his and there was nearly being a row on the head of
14it. But Joe said he would not lose his temper on account of the night it was and asked his wife to open some more stout.
15The two next-door girls had arranged some Hallow Eve games and soon everything was merry again. Maria was delighted to
16see the children so merry and Joe and his wife in such good spirits. The next-door girls put some saucers on the table
17and then led the children up to the table, blindfold. One got the prayer-book and the other three got the water; and
18when one of the next-door girls got the ring Mrs Donnelly shook her finger at the blushing girl as much as to say: O, I
19know all about it! They insisted then on blindfolding Maria and leading her up to the table to see what she would get;
20and, while they were putting on the bandage, Maria laughed and laughed again till the tip of her nose nearly met the tip
21of her chin. They led her up to the table amid laughing and joking and she put her hand out in the air as she was told
22to do. She moved her hand about here and there in the air and descended on one of the saucers. She felt a soft wet
23substance with her fingers and was surprised that nobody spoke or took off her bandage. There was a pause for a few
24seconds; and then a great deal of scuffling and whispering. Somebody said something about the garden, and at last Mrs
25Donnelly said something very cross to one of the next-door girls and told her to throw it out at once: that was no play.
26Maria understood that it was wrong that time and so she had to do it over again: and this time she got the prayer-book.
27After that Mrs Donnelly played Miss McCloud's Reel for the children and Joe made Maria take a glass of wine. Soon they
28were all quite merry again and Mrs Donnelly said Maria would enter a convent before the year was out because she had got
29the prayer-book. Maria had never seen Joe so nice to her as he was that night, so full of pleasant talk and
30reminiscences. She said they were all very good to her. At last the children grew tired and sleepy and Joe asked Maria
31would she not sing some little song before she went, one of the old songs. Mrs Donnelly said "Do, please, Maria!" and so
32Maria had to get up and stand beside the piano. Mrs Donnelly bade the children be quiet and listen to Maria's song. Then
33she played the prelude and said "Now, Maria!" and Maria, blushing very much began to sing in a tiny quavering voice. She
34sang I Dreamt that I Dwelt, and when she came to the second verse she sang again: I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls
35With vassals and serfs at my side And of all who assembled within those walls That I was the hope and the pride. I had
36riches too great to count, could boast Of a high ancestral name, But I also dreamt, which pleased me most, That you
37loved me still the same. But no one tried to show her her mistake; and when she had ended her song Joe was very much
38moved. He said that there was no time like the long ago and no music for him like poor old Balfe, whatever other people
39might say; and his eyes filled up so much with tears that he could not find what he was looking for and in the end he
40had to ask his wife to tell him where the corkscrew was.
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