It was when _she_ learned that that she wrote to him not to come back; but he never sent an honest word to say whether he'd stay away or not.

She knows what he is, sir, for folks that he'd cheated and lied to come to her to complain.

Young as she is, there's white threads in her hair, just to think that he might come back at any time.
It's making an old woman of her since she's come of an age to think; and she the merriest, blithest creature that ever was.

When she first came out of the convent, to see her dance and sing was a sight to make old eyes young." "Yes," said Caius eagerly, "I know it was--I am sure it was." "Oh, but you never saw her, sir, till the shadow had come on her." "Do you know when it was I first saw her ?" said Caius, looking down at the grass.
"She told me 'twas when she went to Prince Edward's Land, the time she went to see the wife of her father's brother.

'Twas the one time that O'Shea let her out of his sight; but no one knew where she was, so if the Captain had come at that time he couldn't have found her without coming to O'Shea first.