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Maggie reminisces about a summer night in her youth when she and her sister Bernie snuck out to a dance in Ardstraw. She recalls the beauty of her sister dancing with the boy she liked and the bittersweet unfairness of the competition results.

Michael, as an adult narrator, reflects on the summer of 1936 in Donegal. He describes a haunting, dreamlike memory of his family dancing, suggesting that movement expressed what language could no longer capture.