Donal turned again to Arctura.
“You know they say there is a hidden room in the castle, my lady?”
“Do you believe it?” she returned.
“I think there may be such a place.”
“Surely if there had been, it would have been found long ago.”
“They might have said that on the first report of the discovery of America!”
“That was far off, and across a great ocean!”
“And here are thick walls, and hearts careless and timid!—Has any one ever set in earnest about finding it?”
“Not that I know of.”
“Then your objection falls to the ground. If you could have told me that one had tried to find the place, but without success, I would have admitted some force in it, though it would not have satisfied me without knowing the plans he had taken, and how they were carried out. On the other hand it may have been known to many who held their peace about it.—Would you not like to know the truth concerning that too?”