It is all mortgaged and there is Luke's debt." "Let it go," I said, wincing.

"But as for Theobald, never fret about that, Gran.

We were only brother and sister, too close to become closer." "I think the wedding has turned Maureen's head," my grandmother went on fretfully.

"I found her setting Luke's room in order.

She would have it that he was coming home from school by the hooker from Galway.