The episode of the dawn singing was not discussed until after the game, when it made its way sideways into the talk, first by way of Kitty Meade who with vividness, exactitude and dramatic pause described to Dympna Fennel in Bourke’s what she had not witnessed, and then by Dympna who, in telling Cissie Casey, added the flourish of Christy’s dropping on one knee and sweeping from his head a straw hat.
