The cousinship I don't think matters; Kirsteen brings in too strong an out-strain.

He's HER son, not Tod's.

But perhaps," he added, sighing, "it won't last." Flora shook her head.

"It will last!" she said; "Nedda's deep." And if Nedda held, so would Fate; no one would throw Nedda over! They naturally both felt that.

'Dionysus at the Well,' no less than 'The Last of the Laborers,' had a light week of it.
Though in a sense relieved at having parted with her secret, Nedda yet felt that she had committed desecration.