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1Just then his aunts and his wife came out of the ladies' dressing-room. His aunts were two small plainly dressed old
2women. Aunt Julia was an inch or so the taller. Her hair, drawn low over the tops of her ears, was grey; and grey also,
3with darker shadows, was her large flaccid face. Though she was stout in build and stood erect her slow eyes and parted
4lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going. Aunt Kate was more
5vivacious. Her face, healthier than her sister's, was all puckers and creases, like a shrivelled red apple, and her
6hair, braided in the same old-fashioned way, had not lost its ripe nut colour. They both kissed Gabriel frankly. He was
7their favourite nephew, the son of their dead elder sister, Ellen, who had married T. J. Conroy of the Port and Docks.
8"Gretta tells me you're not going to take a cab back to Monkstown tonight, Gabriel," said Aunt Kate. "No," said Gabriel,
9turning to his wife, "we had quite enough of that last year, hadn't we? Don't you remember, Aunt Kate, what a cold
10Gretta got out of it? Cab windows rattling all the way, and the east wind blowing in after we passed Merrion. Very jolly
11it was. Gretta caught a dreadful cold." Aunt Kate frowned severely and nodded her head at every word. "Quite right,
12Gabriel, quite right," she said. "You can't be too careful." "But as for Gretta there," said Gabriel, "she'd walk home
13in the snow if she were let." Mrs Conroy laughed. "Don't mind him, Aunt Kate," she said. "He's really an awful bother,
14what with green shades for Tom's eyes at night and making him do the dumb-bells, and forcing Eva to eat the stirabout.
15The poor child! And she simply hates the sight of it!... O, but you'll never guess what he makes me wear now!" She broke
16out into a peal of laughter and glanced at her husband, whose admiring and happy eyes had been wandering from her dress
17to her face and hair. The two aunts laughed heartily too, for Gabriel's solicitude was a standing joke with them.
18"Goloshes!" said Mrs Conroy. "That's the latest. Whenever it's wet underfoot I must put on my goloshes. Tonight even he
19wanted me to put them on, but I wouldn't. The next thing he'll buy me will be a diving suit." Gabriel laughed nervously
20and patted his tie reassuringly while Aunt Kate nearly doubled herself, so heartily did she enjoy the joke. The smile
21soon faded from Aunt Julia's face and her mirthless eyes were directed towards her nephew's face. After a pause she
22asked: "And what are goloshes, Gabriel?" "Goloshes, Julia!" exclaimed her sister. "Goodness me, don't you know what
23goloshes are? You wear them over your ... over your boots, Gretta, isn't it?" "Yes," said Mrs Conroy. "Guttapercha
24things. We both have a pair now. Gabriel says everyone wears them on the continent." "O, on the continent," murmured
25Aunt Julia, nodding her head slowly. Gabriel knitted his brows and said, as if he were slightly angered: "It's nothing
26very wonderful but Gretta thinks it very funny because she says the word reminds her of Christy Minstrels." "But tell
27me, Gabriel," said Aunt Kate, with brisk tact. "Of course, you've seen about the room. Gretta was saying...." "O, the
28room is all right," replied Gabriel. "I've taken one in the Gresham." "To be sure," said Aunt Kate, "by far the best
29thing to do. And the children, Gretta, you're not anxious about them?" "O, for one night," said Mrs Conroy. "Besides,
30Bessie will look after them." "To be sure," said Aunt Kate again. "What a comfort it is to have a girl like that, one
31you can depend on! There's that Lily, I'm sure I don't know what has come over her lately. She's not the girl she was at
32all." Gabriel was about to ask his aunt some questions on this point but she broke off suddenly to gaze after her sister
33who had wandered down the stairs and was craning her neck over the banisters. "Now, I ask you," she said almost testily,
34"where is Julia going? Julia! Julia! Where are you going?" Julia, who had gone half way down one flight, came back and
35announced blandly: "Here's Freddy." At the same moment a clapping of hands and a final flourish of the pianist told that
36the waltz had ended. The drawing-room door was opened from within and some couples came out. Aunt Kate drew Gabriel
37aside hurriedly and whispered into his ear: "Slip down, Gabriel, like a good fellow and see if he's all right, and don't
38let him up if he's screwed. I'm sure he's screwed. I'm sure he is." Gabriel went to the stairs and listened over the
39banisters. He could hear two persons talking in the pantry. Then he recognised Freddy Malins' laugh. He went down the
40stairs noisily. "It's such a relief," said Aunt Kate to Mrs Conroy, "that Gabriel is here. I always feel easier in my
41mind when he's here.... Julia, there's Miss Daly and Miss Power will take some refreshment. Thanks for your beautiful
42waltz, Miss Daly. It made lovely time." A tall wizen-faced man, with a stiff grizzled moustache and swarthy skin, who
43was passing out with his partner said: "And may we have some refreshment, too, Miss Morkan?" "Julia," said Aunt Kate
44summarily, "and here's Mr Browne and Miss Furlong. Take them in, Julia, with Miss Daly and Miss Power." "I'm the man for
45the ladies," said Mr Browne, pursing his lips until his moustache bristled and smiling in all his wrinkles. "You know,
46Miss Morkan, the reason they are so fond of me is----" He did not finish his sentence, but, seeing that Aunt Kate was
47out of earshot, at once led the three young ladies into the back room. The middle of the room was occupied by two square
48tables placed end to end, and on these Aunt Julia and the caretaker were straightening and smoothing a large cloth. On
49the sideboard were arrayed dishes and plates, and glasses and bundles of knives and forks and spoons. The top of the
50closed square piano served also as a sideboard for viands and sweets. At a smaller sideboard in one corner two young men
51were standing, drinking hop-bitters. Mr Browne led his charges thither and invited them all, in jest, to some ladies'
52punch, hot, strong and sweet. As they said they never took anything strong he opened three bottles of lemonade for them.
53Then he asked one of the young men to move aside, and, taking hold of the decanter, filled out for himself a goodly
54measure of whisky. The young men eyed him respectfully while he took a trial sip. "God help me," he said, smiling, "it's
55the doctor's orders." His wizened face broke into a broader smile, and the three young ladies laughed in musical echo to
56his pleasantry, swaying their bodies to and fro, with nervous jerks of their shoulders. The boldest said: "O, now, Mr
57Browne, I'm sure the doctor never ordered anything of the kind." Mr Browne took another sip of his whisky and said, with
58sidling mimicry: "Well, you see, I'm like the famous Mrs Cassidy, who is reported to have said: 'Now, Mary Grimes, if I
59don't take it, make me take it, for I feel I want it.'" His hot face had leaned forward a little too confidentially and
60he had assumed a very low Dublin accent so that the young ladies, with one instinct, received his speech in silence.
61Miss Furlong, who was one of Mary Jane's pupils, asked Miss Daly what was the name of the pretty waltz she had played;
62and Mr Browne, seeing that he was ignored, turned promptly to the two young men who were more appreciative. A red-faced
63young woman, dressed in pansy, came into the room, excitedly clapping her hands and crying: "Quadrilles! Quadrilles!"
64Close on her heels came Aunt Kate, crying: "Two gentlemen and three ladies, Mary Jane!" "O, here's Mr Bergin and Mr
65Kerrigan," said Mary Jane. "Mr Kerrigan, will you take Miss Power? Miss Furlong, may I get you a partner, Mr Bergin. O,
66that'll just do now." "Three ladies, Mary Jane," said Aunt Kate. The two young gentlemen asked the ladies if they might
67have the pleasure, and Mary Jane turned to Miss Daly. "O, Miss Daly, you're really awfully good, after playing for the
68last two dances, but really we're so short of ladies tonight." "I don't mind in the least, Miss Morkan." "But I've a
69nice partner for you, Mr Bartell D'Arcy, the tenor. I'll get him to sing later on. All Dublin is raving about him."
70"Lovely voice, lovely voice!" said Aunt Kate.
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