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Updated: May 2, 2025
I said, well enough pleased at the chance of prolonging our walk. "No; it is too late," she answered abruptly. "Is there nowhere else here where we could get it?" "I do not think so," I said, stupidly. Then I remembered that it grew in the richest profusion on the face of the grotto we call Bealloch-an-uarain. "Except at the well," I added.
Nowadays when the mood comes on me, and I must be the old man chafing against the decay of youth's spirit, and the recollection overpowers of other times and other faces than those so kent and tolerant about me, I put my plaid on my shoulders and walk to Bealloch-an-uarain well. My children's children must be with me elsewhere on my saunters; here I must walk alone.
For I am never there at Bealloch-an-uarain, summer or spring, but the season, in my thought, is that of my wife's first kiss, and it is always a pleasant evening and the birds are calling in the dusk. I plucked my lady's ivy with a cruel wrench, as one would pluck a sweet delusion from his heart, and her fingers were so warm and soft as I gave her the leaves! Then I turned to go.
"At least you give me plenty of warning," she said. "I am going to kiss you now," I said, with great firmness. She walked a little faster, panting as I could hear, and I blamed myself that I had alarmed her. "At least," I added, "I'll do it when we get to Bealloch-an-uarain well."
Our conversation turned to more common channels, and I had hoped my companion had lost the crude impression of my wooing as we passed the path that led from the hunting-road to the Bealloch-an-uarain. "Oh!" she cried here, "I wished for some ivy; I thought to pluck it farther back, and your nonsense made me quite forget." "Cannot we return for it?"
The maid took her water-stoups and went up to the Cross Well, where women were busy at that hour of the day plying for the water of Bealloch-an-uarain, that bubbles up deep in the heart of the hills, and brings the coolness and refreshment of the shady wood into the burgh street in the most intense days of summer warmth.
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