Oncemakes
the decision to leave her life in Dublin to marry the sailor Frank and go abroad, she begins to
second guess herself and starts to notice all she might losing. She wonders, for
example:
What would they say of her in the Stores when
they found out that she had run away with a fellow?
She
describes a job she dislikes and a home life where she has never been loved, favored, or
appreciated. She remembers working hardas she still doesand not feeling respected. But as the
time to leave approaches, she remembers her father. It occurs to her that her father is getting
old and might not be able to get on without her. She remembers a rare act of kindness from him
that happened recently:
Not long before, when she had
been laid up for a day, he had read her out a ghost story and...
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