He ran his arm round her shoulder.
"Ah, come, come!" he said, with a touch of insinuating brogue, and kissed her.

"Come, it's all right.

I didn't mean anything, and she didn't mean anything; and let's start fresh again." She looked up at him with quick intelligence.

"That's just what we'll have to do," she said.

"The Cure this morning at mass scolded the people about the Rebellion, and said that Nic and you had brought all this trouble upon Bonaventure; and everybody looked at our pew and snickered.
Oh, how I hate them all! Then I jumped up--" "Well ?" asked Ferrol, "and what then ?" "I told them that my brother wasn't a coward, and that you were my husband." "And then--then what happened ?" "Oh, then there was a great fuss in the church, and the Cure said ugly things, and I left and came home quick.