"Is there anything between you and he, Feemy?"
"What do you mean by between us, Thady?" and Feemy made a little fruitless attempt to laugh.
"Well then; you're in love with him, ain't you? there now, that's the long and the short."
"Supposing I was, why shouldn't I?"
"Only this, Feemy, he's not in love with you."
This put Feemy's back up, "'Deed then, it's little you know about it, for he just is; and I love him too with all my heart, and that's all about it; and you might have found that out without sending him back to Mohill."
"I wish then he'd stay at Mohill, and that I might never see him over the door at Ballycloran again!"
"That's kind of you, Thady, after what I just told you; but don't tell him so, that's all."
"But it's just what I mane to tell him, and what I shall go over to Mohill on purpose to tell him, to-morrow."
"Good gracious, Thady! and for why?"