Now answer me.

When shall my Kate become your wife ?" He still knew that any such consummation as that was quite out of the question.

The mother herself as she was now present to him, seemed to be a woman very different from the quiet, handsome, high-spirited, but low-voiced widow whom he had known, or thought that he had known, at Ardkill.

Of her as she had there appeared to him he had not been ashamed to think as one who might at some future time be personally related to himself.

He had recognized her as a lady whose outward trappings, poor though they might be, were suited to the seclusion in which she lived.
But now, although it was only to Ennis that she had come from her nest among the rocks, she seemed to be unfitted for even so much intercourse with the world as that.