{Exit CHRISTY.
SCENE IV.
The Garden of the Widow LARKEN’S Cottage.
OWEN and MABEL.
Owen. How does my mother bear the disappointment, Mabel about the inn?
Mabel. Then to outward appearance she did not take it so much to heart as I expected she would. But I’m sure she frets inwardly—because she had been in such hopes, and in such spirits, and so proud to think how well her children would all be settled.
Owen. Oh, how sorry I am I told her in that hurry the good news I heard, and all to disappoint her afterwards, and break her heart with it!
Mabel. No, she has too good a heart to break for the likes. She’ll hold up again after the first disappointment—she’ll struggle on for our sakes, Owen.