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"What is the secret?" said the Queen, laying her hands suddenly upon Gilveen's shoulders. "That I am his wife to be," said Gilveen. The Queen went to her son and said, "Dost thou not remember Morag, Flann, who gave the token that thou gavest me?" And Flann said, "Morag! I think the Spae-Woman spoke of her name in a story." "I am Flann's wife to be," said Gilveen, smiling in his face.
At noon they halted to bide until the Queen came with or without her seven brothers. Flann and Gilveen were always together. And always Gilveen was smiling.
"And you will be asking how I came here," said Gilveen, "and I will tell you without wasting candle-light. Myself and sister Aefa went to the court of the King of Ireland after you, my sister, had gone from us with the lucky man of your choice. And as for Aefa, she has been lucky too in finding a match and she is now married to Maravaun the King's Councillor. I have been with Caintigern the Queen.
He knew her for his sweetheart and his promised wife and he went to her and asked her how it came that she had not been in his mind for so long. "I will tell you how you came to forget me," said she, "it was because of the kiss you gave Gilveen, and the enchantment she was able to put on you because of that kiss."
When Fedelma and the King of Ireland's Son came to the Spae-Woman's house, who was the first person they saw there but Gilveen, Fedelma's sister! She came to where they reined their horse and smiled in the faces of her sister and the King of Ireland's Son. And she it was who gave them their first welcome.
The next day Gilveen came to watch Morag make the red embroideries upon the white garment. When she put the needle into the cloth it worked out the pattern of itself. "This is the most wonderful thing of all," said Gilveen. She stooped down and took the needle in her hand. "I cannot give this back to you," she said, "and you will have to ask for a favor that will recompense you."
And Art was well pleased, and he and Gilveen left the Castle to be married. Then the day came when Fedelma and the King of Ireland's Son, and Morag and Flann were married. They were plighted to each other in the Circle of Stones by the Druids who invoked upon them the powers of the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, and the Air.
Gilveen had come into the room and she saw Flann and Morag give each other a true-lover's kiss. She went away.
"That will do me no harm," said Gilveen. She went away, taking the scissors and smiling to herself. That night Morag went into the Castle and came to the supper-table where Flann was seated alone. But Gilveen had put a sleeping-draught into Flann's cup and he neither saw nor knew Morag when she sat at the table.
The basket was left down and Gilveen began to tell MacStairn's wife how she wanted them cut, stitched and embroidered. Morag took up the crimson doth and let her scissors the scissors that the Queen of Senlabor gave her run through it. It cut out the pattern exactly. "What a wonderful scissors," said Gilveen.
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