Achoimre
As a result of his visit to the local doctor, Drumm calls upon Mary and Lar Kearns, friends from whom he has been estranged, in an attempt to assess himself, his life and to discover, in his own words, what he amounts to. Later he and his wife, Dolly pay a social Sunday evening call on the Kearns, but in his mind are two other evenings forty years previously: one an outing to a local park, the other the occasion of his first attempt at public speaking. The past is an explanation for the present, but even Drumm's self-knowledge is founded on illusion.