"Oh, dear!" said Nani, "are you going by the old trên, then? As for
me, I'm too frightened of it to go and see my own daughter. She's
asked me many times, and I would have good living there, but I wouldn't
venture in the trên for the whole world!"

"I'm not afraid of it," said Sara, "but I have never seen it. 'Twould
be strange to me, and the shipping comes more natural, so I'm going to
Caer-Madoc, for I know the steamer sails from there to Cardiff every
Tuesday. I hope I will be there in time; but tell me, Nani, about
Kitty your daughter."

"She is married again, and such a good husband she has. John Parry
nearly killed her, pwr thing, and then he died, and she married this
man--his name is Jones."

"But I want to know," said Sara, "did she say anything about Gethin
Owens when she was here?"

"She said she was never seeing him, and she didn't know why he was
keeping away from her, and the sailors were often seeing him about the
docks, but she didn't know where he was lodging now. There's glad I
was to see her; but indeed, Sara fâch, it cost me a lot of money, 'cos
she's got a good appetite, whatever. 'Tis a great waste to come all
that long way by the trên. She wants to come again, and if it wasn't
for the money--"

Sara, who had no sympathy with the parsimony of many of her class, rose
to go.