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Away on home now, an' lave me to do my work. Sure, you're not left school yet!" She left him abruptly, and walked up to the cow, slapping its flanks and shouting "Kimmup, there! Kimmup!" and the beast tossed its head, and ran forward a few paces, and then sauntered slowly up the "loanie" towards the byre. "Good-bye, Henry!" Sheila called out when she had gone a little way.
"Of course, she does," he said aloud. "Why shouldn't she? It's hers, isn't it?" He remembered her young beauty and contrasted it with her appearance when he saw her in the "loanie" with her child. In a few years, he thought, she would be like any village woman, worn out, misshapen, tired, with gnarled knuckles and thickened hands. Already she had begun to neglect her hair....
"He doesn't think it's coarse," he said. "He thinks it's fine!" Sheila pondered on this for a few moments. "He must be a quare man, your da!" she said. They walked to the foot of the "loanie" and then turned along the Ballymena road. "Does he know you come out with me?" she said. "Who?" he answered. "Your da." "No. You see!..." He did not know what to say.
He wished to see her again, and his desire became so strong that he started to walk across the fields to the "loanie" that led to Hamilton's farm before he was aware of what he was about.
His mind filled again with the visions he had had of her at Trinity, and he imagined that he saw her every now and then hiding behind a tree, ready to spring out on him and startle him with a loud whoop, or running from him and laughing as she ran.... He met her in the "loanie," and for a few moments he did not recognise her.
She did not speak, though he waited for her to say something. The cow ambled up the "loanie," and Sheila, glancing at him as if she did not recognise him, passed on, following it. "Sheila!" he called after her, but she did not answer, nor did she turn round. "I want to speak to you," he said, going after her. "I don't want to speak to you," she replied, without looking at him.
"Will you be at the class to-night!" he shouted after her. "I will not," she answered. "I'm not goin' to the class no more!" He watched her as she went on up the "loanie" after the cow, hoping that she would turn again and call to him, but she did not look round. He could hear her calling to the beast, "Gwon now!
Henry, suddenly shy, stood still in the "loanie," looking at her and trying to think of something to say to her which would make his appearance there at that hour natural; but before he had thought of something that was suitable, she turned and saw him, and so he went forward, tongue-tied and awkward. "Here's Mr.
The torn strips of clouds, that had looked like molten gold, were now darkening, and their darkness seemed ominous to him. The steepness of the "loanie" made him pant and presently he slackened his pace and slowed-down to walking. His eyes felt hot and stiff in their sockets and when he put his hand on his forehead, he felt that it was wet with sweat. "I'm frightened," he said to himself.
"Well, good-bye, Henry! I'll mebbe see you again some time!" She held out her hand to him and he took it, and then dropped it quickly. "Yes, perhaps," he answered, and added, "Good-bye!" He went off quickly, not looking back until he had reached the foot of the "loanie," and then he stood for a second or two to watch her. She was busy with her baby again.
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