"What for?"
"Just to see it, father."
"I was only there once. It was there yer mother an' me were married. It was there she gave her life into me care."
He became suddenly silent, and the light of memory shone in his eyes, and the sigh of heart-ache broke through his lips.
And his thoughts stretched back through the years, and once again Angela was beside him.
Peg saw the look and knew it. She kept quite still. Then, as of old, when her father was in trouble, she did as she was wont in those old-young days—she slipped her little hand into his and waited for him to break the silence.
After a while he stood up.
"Ye'd betther be goin' to bed, Peg."
"All right, father."
She went to the door. Then she stopped.