![]() "'No one likes flies,' Miss Kelly said, 'especially on a Sunday.'" Eilis watches as Mary, Miss Kelly's bullied assistant, puts up fly paper. What can you do?" Not question her meaning, certainly. "Now there are people who come in here on a Sunday, if you don't mind, looking for things they should get during the week. The baleful Miss Kelly, who runs the most superior of the town's grocery shops, is peculiarly unanswerable. The novel has an acute ear for speech that brooks no response. ![]() Yet it is because Tóibín's characters do not really exchange their thoughts that dialogue can also be comic. It is a shock: dialogue is for implying but not stating fears and feelings. "Oh, it'll kill me when she goes," her mother said. ![]() The neighbour, almost casually, as a way of conversation, said: "You'll miss her when she's gone, I'd say." ![]()
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