[Garthowen by Allen Raine]@TWC D-Link bookGarthowen CHAPTER XVII 5/22
Are you sure there is a way round it ?" "Oh, yes; I will come and show you," said Morva.
"Here is mother," and Sara approached from her herb garden with round, astonished eyes. "Well, indeed!" she said; "this is a pleasant sight--a lady coming to see us, and on Morva's birthday, too! Come in, 'merch i, and sit down and rest.
The horse will be safe tied there to the gate." And Gwenda passed into the cottage with a strange feeling of happiness. "Now, what shall I give you ?" said Sara.
"A cup of milk, or a cup of tea? or, I have some meth here in the corner.
My bees are busy on the wild thyme and furze, you see, so we have plenty of honey for our meth." "I would like a cup of meth," said Gwenda; and as she drank the delicious sparkling beverage, Sara gazed at her with such evident interest that she was constrained to ask: "Why do you look at me so ?" "Because I think I have seen you before," said the old woman. "Not likely," replied Gwenda, "unless in the streets at Castell On." "I have not been there for twenty years," said Sara.
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