For the rest, _I_ give you the freedom of the woods.

Come and go when you will.

You are welcome to Aghadoe." His face lit up.
"Faith, it's pleasant to a homeless man like myself to be assured of a welcome," he said.

"And now, Miss Bawn, let me see you to the confines of the wood, within sight of the Abbey.

Out on the hills and plains it is yet day, but in the woods night comes early, to give a chance perhaps to the birds who have been awake since cock-crow." I crept out of the glade as I had entered it and he followed me.