To that gleam their eyes turned, and from it to each other’s faces.
At the guards who ringed them in they did not look, or they looked unseeingly. But those gaunt apparitions stared like statues on the four and did not move a lip.
“The sun will rise in a little,” said Ardan.... “That magician has gone,” he whispered. “If we leaped at the guards——!”
“No good, brother, they are too many and we have no arms.”
“We should have one merry minute,” said Ardan.
“We have had a merry night,” said Ainnle, “be contented, babe.”
Naoise looked lovingly on his brothers.
“We were always together,” he said. “We shall always be together.”
“And I ...!” said Deirdre, “am I to be left out at last?”