And as, in an hour after they had crossed, no sheet of flame was seen arising thence, he was able to tell Mrs.Conyers that he thought that it was safe, and that either Mr.Conyers himself must have accompanied the troops, who would by this time have unquestionably arrived there, or that some officer, aware that the owner of the house was a friend, and with sufficient authority over the men to prevent its destruction, must be in command.
In the morning, he had a long talk with her.

He suggested that she and her daughter should accompany him into Limerick, and be sent, with a flag of truce, across the bridge to join her husband in William's camp.

This, however, she positively declined to accede to.
"In the first place," she said, "I consider that it is my duty to nurse the men who suffered for our sake.

In the next place, after what we went through last night, I refuse absolutely to place myself and my daughter in the hands of the ruffians who disgrace the cause of William.

Hitherto, as a Protestant, I have been an adherent of that cause, as has my husband.