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About seven in the evening Feemy was so weak that she fainted. Mary, who was in the room at the time, lifted her on the sofa, and when she found that her mistress did not immediately come to herself, she began stripping her for the sake of unlacing her stays, and thus learnt to a certainty poor Feemy's secret.
"'Deed I wonder he a'nt here, Captain; but war you wanting him?" "Not in particular. Is it true the brothers of those poor fellows I took up at Loch Sheen are here to-night?" "They is, both of 'em; there's Joe Reynolds, sitting behind there in the corner where I was when you and Miss Feemy come in."
"And that's little like you, Feemy, to be saying that to your priest; telling me I put the young men up to be quarrelling: it's to save you many a heart-ache, and many a sting of sorrow and remorse; it's to prevent all the evil of unlawful love bad blood, and false looks that I've come here on a most disagreeable and thankless errand; and now you tell me I'd be putting the young men up to fight!"
And I tell you I can't understand business to-day, and Flannelly's bill doesn't come round till next month I know that; and so, if you plaze, Thady can hear what you have to say, at Carrick, on Saturday or Monday, or any day you plaze. Feemy, my darling, get something for Mr. Keegan to eat. I'll be glad to see you eat a bit, but I can't talk any more."
The priest helped Feemy and Ussher, Mary and her husband; and then remarking that he had done all the hard work of the evening, and that he thought it was time to get a bit himself, he filled a moderate plate for his own consumption, and passed the joint down to be treated after the same manner as its fellow.
"This good, Feemy; if what they say is false and unfounded, as I am sure I hope it is, and if you're so fond of Captain Ussher, don't you think it would be as well to put an end to the report by telling your father and brother of your being engaged, and settling something about your marriage, and all that?" "I did tell my brother I was engaged, Father John; what would you have?"
"I'll tell you what, Thady: don't be falling out with Captain Ussher any way, not yet for he may mean honestly, you know, though I own my heart doubts him; but take my advice, and don't be falling out with him yet. I'll see Feemy to-morrow, and if she won't hear or won't heed what her priest says to her, I'll tell you what we'll do. One woman will always listen to another, and I'll ask Mrs.
"Well then, Miss Feemy, and isn't it a dreadful thing to be laving one's home, and one's frinds like, and to be going right away into another house intirely, Miss; and altogether the thoughts of what is the married life at all frets me greatly." "Why, you needn't be married unless you like it, Mary." "Oh!
Won't you step in and tell father about it?" "Oh, you can tell him. I couldn't make him understand it at all, he's so foolish." Feemy bore the slur on her father without indignation. "But, Myles, if you go so soon, am I to go with you?" and when after a few minutes he did not answer, "Speak, Myles, an't we to be married before you go?"
Miss Feemy, there's a sthranger gintleman a rapping at the big knocker, and I think it's the fat lawyer from Carrick; what'll I do thin, Miss?" "Why, you fool!" whispered Feemy through one of the broken panes of glass, "go and ask him who he wants, and tell him Thady an't at home."
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