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She succeeded her son in the Legislature. Miss Truax was made chairman of the important Committee on Education. In 1915 Mrs. Morna Wood, also of Sundance, was elected to the Lower House. She introduced a bill, which became a law, for the protection and regulation of child employment. During this session a bill in the direction of easy divorce came before the House and Mrs.
His first son, with the lady Dallas, was doing well in his warrior training, though both he and his half-brother Nevan's with the lady Morna, who looked more than a little smug, telling him were giving Sean and Ellen fits trying to keep up.
Morna asked herself the one question after the other, almost as often as she set her right foot in front of her left; but she was not merely inquisitive in the matter, she had a secret and instinctive compassion for the woman who had done this thing.
Not that the reserve was all on one side. Morna Woodgate had her own secrets too. One of them, however, was extracted during their stroll. "May I make a personal remark?" asked Rachel, who had been admiring the pale brown face of Morna in her turn, as they came slowly back to the house across the lawns. "You frighten me," said Morna, laughing. "But let me hear the worst."
There was a pause. "Then you intend to call upon her?" said Mrs. Venables, coming with directness to an obviously premeditated point. "I do I must it is so different with us," said the vicar's young wife, with her pretty brown blush. "Certainly," added the vicar himself, with dogmatic emphasis. Mrs. Venables did not look at him, but she looked the harder at Morna instead.
There is, however, this to be added and remembered, that whenever Fionn was in a tight corner it was Goll that plucked him out of it; and, later on, when time did his worst on them all and the Fianna were sent to hell as unbelievers, it was Goll mac Morna who assaulted hell, with a chain in his great fist and three iron balls swinging from it, and it was he who attacked the hosts of great devils and brought Fionn and the Fianna-Finn out with him.
"All the time the flowers are flowering, but they will go, even the oaks will go. Till you have a spirit like us, and feel like us, you will never, never be happy. Lie still, dear; the shadow of the oak is broad and will not move from you for a long time yet." "But perhaps Paul will come up to my house, and Percy and Morna."
But a groom remarked upon the shortness of his stirrups, in Rachel's hearing, and on the word a flash of memory lit up her brain. All at once she remembered the incident of the gum-leaves, soon after their arrival; he had told Morna what they were, yet to his wife he had pretended not to know. If he also was an Australian, why on earth should that fact, of all facts, be concealed from her?
But it turned out to have been a mathematical degree; and when, under sympathetic pressure, Morna vouchsafed particulars, even Rachel knew enough to appreciate the honors which the vicar's wife had won.
I flew along the dear old paths to our little cottage, but "Desolate was the dwelling of Morna" the house closed, the vine torn down, the grass knee-deep, the shrubs all trailing their branches and blossoms in disorderly luxuriance on the earth, the wire fence broken down between the garden and the wood, the gate gone; the lawn was sown with wheat, and the little pine wood one tangled maze, without path, entrance, or issue.
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