Queen herself used it. Up the road, in the window of the last house of all, a candle shone.
“Sure, Mother is watching for us,” said Larry. “She’s put a candle in the window.”
They went on more slowly now, past Tom Daly’s, past the Maguires’ and the O’Briens’ and several other houses on the way, and when they were quite near their own home Larry said, “Sure, I’ll never travel again without a bit of coal in my pocket. Look at all the danger we’ve been in this night, and never the smallest thing happening to us.”
And Eileen said, “Indeed, musha, ’tis well we’re the good children! Sure, the Good Little People would never at all let harm come to the likes of us, just as Grannie said.”
Chapter Five.
The Twins get Home.
When they were nearly home, the Twins saw a dark figure hurrying down the road, and as it drew near, their Mother’s voice called to them, “Is it yourselves, Larry and Eileen, and whatever kept you till this hour? Sure, you’ve had me distracted entirely with wondering what had become of you at all! And your Dada sits in the room with a lip on him as long as to-day and to-morrow!”
The Twins both began to talk at once. Their mother clapped her hands over her ears.