Nor, for months after, could I be persuaded that the visitor was aught other than the poor distracted lady of Kilgorman.
And it was months after that before I could get out of my mind that she had stood beside us and sought for something in the hearth.
As for us that night, I can promise you we were not many minutes longer in Kilgorman when the spell was once broken.

Even Tim forgot the guns.
With all the speed we could we ran to the stairs and so to my lady's chamber, against which stood the friendly ladder, down which we slid, and not waiting even to restore it to its place, sped like hunted hares down the avenue and along the steep path, till we came to the harbour in the creek where lay our boat.
Nor was it till we were safely afloat, with sail hoisted and our bows pointing to Fanad, that we drew breath, and dared look back in the dim dawn at the grim walls and chimneys of Kilgorman as they loomed out upon us from among the trees and rocks..