Evening Class Part IV

Fran has to tell Kathy that her father Paul is from a well to do family and that he is now married to a very rich woman, and they are well known socialites in Dublin. She feels upset and angry that her fathers family paid her mother off and that she is poor while Paul is living a luxurious life. She decides to go and see him and makes her way boldly into his office. He is surprised to see her, and touched.. and they get on well. She tells him about Fran, and that her mother had a boyfriend a while ago who went to America but she stayed in Dublin to be with her child. Paul hopes that Fran will be happy some time and he and Kathy agree to stay in touch. Nora manages to extricate Lou from his association with the criminal gang and he and Suzi plan their wedding. Another member of the group is Barry who has a problem with his mother. She is convinced her husband is having an affair, and has gotten very depressed. She attempts suicide and is taken to hospital.. and while visiting her there, Barry meets Fiona, a shy girl who works in the hospital cafe. He tells Fiona about his mother and how its hard for him to cope with her. Fiona starts going to their house to learn cookery from his mother and she confides about how she believes her husband is seeing someone else. Fiona persuades her to smarten herself up and try to be more cheerful - and she finds out that the woman the father is seeing is Nell Dunne, the wife of Aidan. Fiona meets Dan, Barry's father at a party to celebrate the first year of the Italian classes, and Nell is also at the party. She tells Nell that Dan is a womaniser who once had an affair iwth her own mother and made her miserable, and that he has no respect for the women he seduces. Nell is angry but it scares her, and it appears that Dan is reconciling with his wife. The two of them seem happier and Nell faces the fact that her marriage to Aidan is pretty much over and her lover has also dropped her. Aidan and Nora prepare for the "viaggio", the trip to Rome where they can show off their Italian. Lou and Suzi decide to make it their honeymoon trip and they get married just before the departure for Rome. Tony O'Brien is surprised that the Italian classes have done so well. People enjoy them and noone has dropped out, and he admires Aidan for having had the bright idea of starting them. He and Grania are now together, though Aidan is not too happy with it.