I would have gone through with it, Gran.

You must forgive me and ask grandpapa to forgive me." She stared at me with a pale face.

In the pause there was a sound like a heavy sigh; then the falling of a body.
"Bawn, Bawn, what have you done ?" she cried, hurrying away from me to the recess by the fireplace.

"It is your grandfather.

He has fainted once before this afternoon, and the doctor says it is his heart.