Can you let me have Black Boy ?" "Pergui! But it's a happy woman your mother will be this night.

She never would give you up, Phil.

It's just wonderful--" "'Tis, sure! Can you spare me Black Boy ?" "Aw now, my dear, but I'm sorry! You see, I'd no idea of you coming, and the young Torode came along this very afternoon and begged me to lend him Black Boy, and I promised, not knowing--But there's Gray Robin.

You can have him.

He's a bit heavy, maybe, but he's safe as a cart, and Black Boy's got more than a bit of the devil in him still.