Patience and Ben listened in utter amazement ending in a not
complimentary laugh on the part of the former. "Our Jeph lord of a
castle? I'd like to see him."
"Would you? He has a welcome and a husband ready for you and Rusha
both?"
"D'ye think I would go and leave you for Jeph, if he were lord of ten
castles?"
And Ben, whose recollections of Jeph were very dim, exclaimed, "Lord
of a castle! I shall have a crow over Nick Blane now!"
Rusha, who was well content with her service at the hall, had no mind
for such a terrible enterprise as a journey "beyond seas" to Ireland,
and mayhap Jeph's prospective husband was a less tempting idea,
because a certain young groom had shown symptoms of making her his
sweetheart.
Steadfast thought often of telling the great secret of his heart to
his faithful sister Patience, but his extreme shyness and modesty,
and the reserve in which he always lived, seemed to make it
impossible to him to broach the subject, and there might be a certain
consciousness that Emlyn, while his own pet, had been very
troublesome to Patience.
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