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Updated: June 14, 2025
He drew Crimthann apart, for he withheld no instruction from that lad. "My heart," he said, "we must always try to act wisely, and we should only insist on receiving answers to questions in which we are personally concerned." Crimthann imbibed all the justice of that remark. "Thus I do not really require to know this lady's name, nor do I care from what direction she comes." "You do not?"
When the machinery of anything is explained to us we grow interested, and Crimthann became, by instruction, as astonished as the king was. "In good truth," said he, "the woman is driving two horses." "Had you not observed it before?" his master asked with kindly malice. "I had observed but not noticed," the young man admitted.
"Good, my Treasure," Dermod answered, "our minds are astonished when we see a woman able to drive a cow to pasture, for it has always seemed to us that they do not drive well." Crimthann absorbed instruction like a sponge and digested it as rapidly. "I think that is justly said," he agreed. "But," Dermod continued, "when we see a woman driving a chariot of two horses, then we are amazed indeed."
Nevertheless, it was upon his ward that the lady's gaze rested, and if the king could scarcely look away from her, she could, but only with an equal effort, look away from Crimthann. "Halt there!" cried the king. "Who should I halt for?" the lady demanded, halting all the same, as is the manner of women, who rebel against command and yet receive it. "Halt for Dermod!"
"I do not wish to tell any of these things." "Not to the king!" "I do not wish to tell them to any one." Crimthann was scandalised. "Lady," he pleaded, "you will surely not withhold information from the Ard-Ri'?" But the lady stared as royally on the High King as the High King did on her, and, whatever it was he saw in those lovely eyes, the king did not insist.
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