He turned and saw John's girl fairy. She walked over to him silently. He jumped up and looked at her. Shaun thought he had never seen so exquisite a being. She spoke.
"You are Shaun O'Day," she said softly. She held out something and continued, "Please take this."
Shaun took from her graceful white hand a slip of paper. She kept looking into his eyes.
"Read it, Shaun," she said.
Shaun opened the paper. His eyes fell on his own boyish handwriting and a shamrock pasted across the top of the letter.
"Faith, 'tis a letter I wrote, myself, when I was a lad!" he exclaimed.
O'CONNELL STREET AND NELSON'S COLUMN, DUBLIN
The girl fairy only smiled and kept looking into Shaun's eyes.
"Begob!" he suddenly shouted, looking hard at the girl fairy. "'Tis Miss Marjorie, the baby Princess!"