"Sure, I might have been a LADY, the way he behaved to me."
"Did he iver smile at ye?"
"Many's the time."
"Do ye remember the proverb I taught ye as a child?"
"Which wun, father? I know a hundred, so I do."
"'Beware the head of a bull, the heels of a horse, of the smile of an Englishman!'"
He paused and looked at her keenly.
"Do you remember that, Peg?"
"I do. There are Englishmen AND Englishmen. There are PLENTY o' bad Irish, and by the same token there are SOME good Englishmen. An' he is wun o' them."
"Why didn't he tell ye he was a Lord?"