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It is Nora Clitheroe’s birthday, and she is looking forward to celebrating with an evening at home with her husband, Jack. Jack had previously been a volunteer soldier in the Irish Citizen Army, a group dedicated to the fight for Irish independence from Great Britain. There is a rally occurring for the Irish Nationalist supporters, but, much to Nora’s relief, Jack will not be attending. She would do — and, as we learn over the course of the scene, has done — anything to keep her husband out of
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(Clitheroe sits down in the lounge, lights a cigarette, and looks thoughtfully into the fire. Nora takes things from the table, placing them on the chest of drawers. There is a pause, then she swiftly comes over to him and sits beside him.)
NORA (softly). A penny for them, Jack!
CLITHEROE. Me? Oh, I was thinkin’ of nothing.
NORA. You were thinkin’ of th’ .
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