She softened some things and omitted others—Ethel entirely. That episode should be locked forever in Peg's heart.
Jerry she touched on lightly.
O'Connell asked her many questions about him, remembering the tone of her later letters. And all the time he never took his eyes from her face, and he marked how it shone with a warm glow of pleasure when Jerry's name occurred, and how the gleam died away and settled into one of sadness when she spoke of her discovery that he had a title.
"They're queer people, the English, Peg."
"They are, father."
"They're cool an' cunnin' an' crafty, me darlin'."
"Some o' them are fine an' honourable an' clever too, father."
"Was this fellow that called himself 'Jerry'—an' all the while was a Lord—that same?"
"Ivery bit of it, father."
"And he trated ye dacent-like?"