"Is he gone ?" she asked before even she would throw herself into her lover's arms.
"Neville has paid him money," said the mother.
"Yes, he has gone," said Fred; "and I think,--I think that he will trouble you no more." "Oh, Fred, oh, my darling, oh, my own one.

At last, at last you have come to me.

Why have you stayed away?
You will not stay away again?
Oh, Fred, you do love me?
Say that you love me." "Better than all the world," he said pressing her to his bosom.
He remained with her for a couple of hours, during which hardly a word was said to him about his marriage.

So great had been the effect upon them all of the sudden presence of the Captain, and so excellent had been the service rendered them by the trust which the Captain had placed in the young man's wealth, that for this day both priest and mother were incapacitated from making their claim with the vigour and intensity of purpose which they would have shewn had Captain O'Hara not presented himself at the cottage.

The priest left them soon,--but not till it had been arranged that Neville should go back to Ennis to prepare for his reception of the Captain, and return to the cottage on the day after that interview was over.