And Granya had sensed it.... He might have known she would. Conceal it as he might try, a mysterious telepathy was between them.... She knew....
It was she who had gone to the British embassy in Washington, telling Shane nothing. He had heard of it afterward. She hadn't pleaded or given any promises. She had just flared in to the startled envoy.
"I wish to go back to Ireland."
"Unfortunately, the privy council had the matter of Miss O'Malley—"
"I am not Miss O'Malley. I am Shane Campbell's wife."
"But you are a dangerous enemy to the empire!"
"Am I? I had forgotten completely about the empire."
"There was a little matter of a shipload of rifles—"
"And now it is a matter of a husband and two children."
"Sure, Miss O'Malley?"