She was already coming back to life. As her husband stood at her side, she began to smile at him in her old, sweet way.
And now she moved and spoke, and took up her life as in the days before the fairy spell was cast upon her.
Her husband and all others in the castle were filled with happiness. There was great rejoicing. The beautiful Ethna was safe, and King Finvarra never again tried to win her to the fairy realm.
Is it a true story? some one asks. If you do not believe it, you need only go to the hill through which the tunnel was dug. It can be seen, even now. And people still call it the Fairies' Glen.
When Norah's father finished the story, the children begged him to tell "just one more, plaze." But he pointed to the clock.
"Late, late it is for you childer to be up," he said. "It is to bed ye must go this very minute."
A quarter of an hour afterward, every one in the little cabin was settled for the night.