Dear Bawn, I adore her." I had guessed it all the time, and remembered that he had mentioned Miss Travers before, and that the manner of it was significant.

Dear Theobald, it was easy enough to see through his simple guile! My grandparents, having ascertained that Miss Travers was a quite unexceptional person, had an access of cheerfulness.

I could see that once I was married and the paper in their hands, whatever it was, they would begin to look forward to Theobald's return and his marriage.

There would be great days at Aghadoe yet; but I should not be there to see them.
When I came to be measured for my wedding-dress my grandmother discovered how thin I had become.
"You will be all right," she said, "when Richard carries you away from this sad and troubled country to the south and to the sun." Long before this my lover had taken the alarm and fretted over me with anxious tenderness, saying that they had not known how to take care of me, and that once I was his I should be taken care of as no other woman ever was before.
Fortunately for him he was much at the Cottage in those days, superintending the last arrangements, else I think, ardent as he was, he could hardly have borne with me, for I was alternately listless and bitter, so that I have seen my dear old grandmother look at me in sad wonder; and that always reduced me to repentance.
As the time of my marriage came nearer I felt the ignominy the more.

I used to think that the very portraits on the walls looked at me askance because I was going to marry the usurer's son.