soup i'm sure it's i hope everything works out with john's business i'm sure everything will be fine your brother's always had a way of solving his own problem what do you think of ireland would always stay my oldest brother john had to leave early this morning but if wife always says she's from america so you won't get homesick that's my bag this is where he works where i find a statue reminds me of death how very unusual lady helen for a woman to have been married to such a famous sculptor and feel that way did drawing mention that he was going to return he wasn't sure we thought i'd stay on for a while to get to know the family and then if he couldn't make it there i just returned to new york ho john explained i'm afraid john was usually too busy to talk much about the family that's why i'm so happy to be here finally you will have a pleasant day and i'm sure you can find something to occupy our time but i think it's important that only the immediate members of the family should give th mother when did that for seven years never talked so much when you  you want me to include i promise you i'll never forget it  don't joke about that you know he has a bad heart but i know you didn't mean anything by you know i think you ought to spend more time with your wife to be an intelligent woman really noticing size people that know when they're happy know when something's bothering them i want to do me a little favor yes she was missing all night mother was frantic and almost uncontrollable the next morning we found kathleen floating in the water  you know kane i'm sorry i'm not always so moribund the the the funeral ceremonies today it's a very beautiful carmen you know this is are just exactly like i imagined ireland would be it rained the day the funeral every year it's been the same well as flowers and mother's collapse but that was years ago why do you keep having the same ceremony over and over again some things you don't understand yet others probably waiting is richard ready for the ceremony i don't know i think even studio old simon likes to think of himself as the last great irish culture that dangerous running around with a gun like that i don't think it's been fired for thirty years i'm not even sure it's loaded one how did he catch anything or does it we set up snares for rabbits when he finds an empty blames wit to watch h ask me what i did for that right what did you do that day that and asked me why why because you went there but you're going to work if you're going to be my wife you'll have to be of the trusting silent variety astute diagnose you've ever made caleb your own being ridiculous leaving i am sorry i don't care whether you're star you're not and leave it up to you to decide whether you want to sit wait with never see where my room and i have to go down a corridor or where nobody's lived for the past fifty years and up a flight of stairs where my great grand uncle or somebody's tripped and broken neck and that's the spot where my grandfather died of a heart attack the window and there's a man climbing up the wall coming closer toward my window i yell for my mother and she comes into the room just as the man is coming in through the window i hold onto her l crying i'm so small i only come up to her away the the man in the shadows you can almost recognize him but not really he says  he not and i look up at my mother and she's nodding her head and then she starts laughing at me and she picks me up in her arms runs outside  excuse me but i came here because he had something important to  i work in i remember six years ago you were things i never did that every one of us worked in stone my father loved teaching someone else did that i didn't i do i i don't care what anyone says about you who said anything about me no