Chapter 26 MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

Lady O'Gara left Terry eating his curry-the Castle Talbot cook made a particularly good and hot curry-with a quickly recovered appetite, and went upstairs to where Patsy Kenny was sitting by the fire in the sick-room.

"He woke up an' took his milk," said Patsy in an ecstatic whisper, "an' he knew me! 'Is that you, Patsy, ye ould divil?' says he.