Patsy nodded frowningly at him.
"What was it you came to do?"
"I came to give help to the powers," said Finaun mildly.
"I didn't see you doing much," replied Patsy.
"And," Finaun continued smilingly, "the time has come for us to go away."
"You're in a hurry, I suppose?"
"We are not in a great hurry, but the time has come for us to go back."
"Very well!" said Patsy. "We aren't so far from where we started. If we take one of the turns on the right here and bear away to the west by Cnuc-Mahon and Tober-Fola and Rath-Cormac we'll come to the place where your things are buried, and then I suppose—we can get there in three days, if that will do you?"
"That will do," said Finaun.
During the remainder of the day he and his companions walked together talking among themselves while Mac Cann and his daughter went with the ass.