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"You danced with _Harry-na-Suil Balor_ last night?"
"I did; because the gentleman axed me--and why would I refuse him?"
"You whispered in a corner with him?"
"I did not," she replied; "how could I when the room was so throng?"
"Ay, betther in a throng room than a thin one; ay, and you promised to
meet him at the well to-night; and you kept your word."
A woman's courage and determination to persist in falsehood are never
so decided and deliberate as when she feels that the suspicion expressed
against her is true. She then gets into heroics and attempts to turn the
tables upon her opponent, especially when she knows, as Miss Davoren did
on this occasion, that he has nothing but suspicion to support him. She
knew that her lover had been at the bonfire, and that his friends must
have seen her dance with Woodward; and this she did not attempt to deny,
because she could not; but as for their tryst at the well, she felt
satisfied, from her knowledge of his jealous and violent character, that
if he had been aware of it, it would not have been by seeking the fact
through the medium of his threats and her fears that he would have
proceeded.
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