10/11 If she's married before Master Luke comes, then he'll come too late, after all." "Haven't I suffered enough, Maureen ?" my grandmother asked pitifully--"having lost my one boy, and now to see this child slipping away from me! And there's a change in Lord St.Leger; there is, indeed, Maureen. Am I to lose them all, all ?" "Whisht, honey, whisht!" Maureen said, with sudden relenting in her voice. Sure, He wouldn't be so hard on you as to take his Lordship, not at least till Master Luke comes home." "And that will never be," my grandmother went on. |