Shawn is flustered by the impropriety of speaking with Pegeen without a chaperone present, and Pegeen taunts him about being a poor girl alone in the scary night. It is clear that Shawn himself lacks such courage. Shawn remarks on the courage it must take to travel such a distance in the dark. He confesses that he was struck by the tavern's isolation when he saw it outside in the dark, and she tells him that her father and his friends have gone off to attend a wake. Shawn Keogh, "a fat and fair young man," enters the pub tentatively, unsure whether it is appropriate to visit Pegeen while her father is gone (113). The pub owner's daughter, she runs the alehouse when her father is out. Pegeen, age 20, is "a wild-looking but fine girl" (113). She intends to send to the next village for these supplies. It is a dark, autumn evening as Margaret Flaherty, known as Pegeen Mike, sits alone at a table, compiling a list of supplies to make a wedding dress.
A window and a door are located at the back, and give the room its only open air. The public house is simple and spare, containing only a counter, barrels, jugs, table, a bench, a large, open fire and a small interior room. The entire play is set in a public house "on the wild coast of Mayo," outside a village in Northwestern Ireland, circa 1907 (113).
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