"I think I had better not tell you about old Alison!" she said.
"Why not ?" and Don Aloysius returned her smile.

"If old Alison has anything to do with your happiness I should like to hear." "Well, you see, you are a priest," went on Morgana, slowly, "and she is a witch.

Oh yes, truly!--a real witch! There is no one in all that part of the Highlands that does not know of her, and the power she has! She is very, very old--some folks say she is more than a hundred.

She knew my father and grandfather--she came to my father's cottage the night I was born, and said strange things about a 'May child'-- I was born in May.

We went--as I tell you--to see her, and found her spinning.