"Do, father."
"And we won't separate any more, Peg, will we?"
"We wouldn't have this time but for you, father."
"Is it sorry ye are that ye went?"
"I don't know. I'm sorry o' coorse, and GLAD, too, in some ways."
"What made yez come back so sudden-like?"
"I only promised to stay a month."
"Didn't they want ye any longer?"
"In one way they did, an' in another they didn't. It's a long history—that's what it is. Let us sit down here as we used in the early days and I'll tell ye the whole o' the happenin's since I left ye."
She made him comfortable as had been her wont before, and, sitting on the little low stool at his feet, she told him the story of her month abroad and the impelling motive of her return.