"
"Then it's all settled?"
"I suppose it is."
"Good, me darlin'. Ye'll never regret it" O'Connell said this with a
cheery laugh, though his heart was aching at the thought of being
separated from her.
Peg looked at him reproachfully. Then she said:
"It's surprised I am at ye turnin' me away from ye to go into a
stuck-up old man's house that threated me mother the way he did."
And so the discussion ended.
For the next few days Peg was busy preparing herself for the journey
and buying little things for her scanty equipment. Then the cable
came to the effect that a passage was reserved for her and money was
waiting at a banker's for her expenses. This Peg obstinately refused
to touch. She didn't want anything except what her father gave her.
When the morning of her departure came, poor Peg woke with a heavy
heart. It was their first parting, and she was miserable.
O'Connell, on the contrary, seemed full of life and high spirits. He
laughed at her and joked with her and made a little bundle of some
things that would not go in her bag--and that he had kept for her to
the last minute. They were a rosary that had been his mother's, a
prayer-book Father Cahill gave him the day he was confirmed, and
lastly the little miniature of Angela.
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