This was her first experience of theft, and it hurt her. The children, as it happened, never did notice the absence of the locket, but they kept the memory of the old woman very green.
Nothing after that could be missed without some reference to her. "Where's the corkscrew ?" Robert would say.
"I suppose Kathleen Mavourneen's got it." "It's no use," Jack would remark, "I can't find the salt.
Erin go bragh!".