"He didn't think it necessary. Over there they let ye gather from their manner what they are. They don't think it necessary to be tellin' everyone."
"It's the strange ones they are, Peg, to be rulin' us."
"Some day, father, they'll go over to Ireland and learn what we're really like, and then they'll change everything. Jerry said that."
"They've begun to already. Sure, there's a man named Plunkett has done more in a few years than all the governments have accomplished in all the years they've been blunderin' along tryin' to thrample on us. An' sure, Plunkett has a title, too!"
"I know, father. Jerry knows him and often spoke of him."
"Did he, now?"
"He did. He said that so long as the English government 'ud listen to kindly, honourable men like Plunkett, there was hope of makin' Ireland a happy, contented people, an' Jerry said—"
"It seems Misther Jerry must have said a good deal to yez."
"Oh, he did. Sure, it was HE started me learnin' things, an' I am goin' on learnin' now, father. Let us both learn."
"What?" cried the astonished father.