"Here are some knives, but as for forks, we just have to do without them." Walter enjoyed his meal immensely.

After it was finished, the wooden platters were removed, and the jug replenished.
"Now, your honour, will you tell us how you got away from the Protestant rebels, and how was it they didn't make short work of you, when they caught you?
It's a puzzle to us entirely, for the Enniskilleners spare neither man, woman, nor child." Walter related the whole circumstances of his capture, imprisonment, and escape.
"You fooled them nicely," the man said, admiringly.

"Sure your honour's the one to get out of a scrape--and you little more than a boy." "And what are you doing here ?" Walter asked, in return.

"This seems a wild place to live in." "It's just that," the man said.

"We belonged to Kilbally.