Dubliners Chapter 6 - Two Gallants

In which two young men of the city stroll through the warm streets of August, their talk weaving between jests and schemes, set against the murmuring throng and fading daylight. Their path leads to a rendezvous with a woman, stirring in one a restless hope and in the other a quiet measure of cunning, all beneath the watchful swirl of lanterns and moonlight.