"
Still deeply agitated, Father Dan left me by the bridge, and at the gate
of our drive I found Tommy the Mate on a ladder, covering, with flowers
from the conservatory, a triumphal arch which the joiner had hammered up
the day before.
The old man hardly noticed me as I passed through, and this prompted me
to look up and speak to him.
"Tommy," I said, "do you know you are the only one who hasn't said a
good word to me about my marriage?"
"Am I, missy?" he answered, without looking down. "Then maybe that's
because I've had so many bad ones to say to other people."
I asked which other people.
"Old Johnny Christopher, for one. I met him last night at the 'Horse and
Saddle.' 'Grand doings at the Big House, they're telling me,' says
Johnny. 'I won't say no,' I says. 'It'll be a proud day for the
grand-daughter of Neill the Lord when she's mistress of Castle Raa,'
says Johnny. 'Maybe so,' I says, 'but it'll be a prouder day for Castle
Raa when she sets her clane little foot in it.'"
TWENTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER
I should find it difficult now, after all that has happened since, to
convey an adequate idea of the sense of shame and personal dishonour
which was produced in me by Father Dan's account of the contents of
Martin's letter.
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