When all was over the rider of the black horse said, "Are you willing to return home now?"
"Yes," said O'Cronicert, "very willing."
They then rose, and went to the stable: and the black horse was taken out; and they leaped on its back, and went away. The rider of the black horse said to O'Cronicert, after they had set off, "Do you know who I am?"
"I do not," said O'Cronicert.
"I am a brother-in-law of yours," said the rider of the black horse; "and though my sister is married to you there is not a king or knight in Erin who is a match for her. Two of your vows are now broken; and if you break the other vow you shall lose your wife and all that you possess."
They arrived at O'Cronicert's house; and O'Cronicert said, "I am ashamed to go in, as they do not know where I have been since night came."
"Hoo!" said the rider, "they have not missed you at all. There is so much conviviality among them, that they have not suspected that you have been anywhere. Here are the two teeth that you knocked out of the front of your wife's mouth. Put them in their place, and they will be as strong as ever."
"Come in with me," said O'Cronicert to the rider of the black horse.
"I will not: I disdain to go in," said the rider of the black horse.
The rider of the black horse bade O'Cronicert good-bye, and went away.