"They're in my house, your Ladyship. I brought them back there last night an' I gev it up to them. I slep' in the loft over the stables myself."
"Oh, but, Patsy, they can't stay in your house! The people would talk."
"Sure I know they'd talk—if it was an angel in Heaven. That's why I kem to your Ladyship."
"I'll come and see the woman, Patsy, and we'll decide what is best to be done."
Patsy's face cleared amazingly.
"I knew you'd come," he said. "It'll be all right when your Ladyship sees them, God help them."
CHAPTER V
THE HAVEN
Lady O'Gara came in by way of a little-used gate a few days later. She had been to Inch, where the house was being turned out of doors and everything aired and swept and dusted and repolished, for a home-coming so long delayed that people had forgotten to look for it. Castle Talbot had six entrance gates, each with its lodge: and this one was rarely used.
Susan—as Mrs. Baker preferred to be called, Susan Horridge: she seemed to wish to drop the "Mrs. Baker"—came out with a key to open the gate, which was padlocked.