human
Tell me, darling, tell me, my own little Rosy, what is the trouble on you?
gpt
Oh, Robbie, Robbie! the tears came to her eyes,
human
Why, darling, what do you mean? What brought you here except to make me the happiest man in Ulster, or out of it.
gpt
No, no, Robbie, love, you were happy till I came. You might be happy now and always, but I--I have changed the current of your life. It might have run on calmly as the stream below, flowing in an accustomed course, but now----
human
But no, darling, whatever be its course, it will run brighter than the stream runs on there so long as I have you with me, my own dear, darling little Rosette.
gpt
But Robbie, don't you understand, dear. I have had such dreams, and of you--oh, they have frightened my very soul!
human
You silly darling. Do you not know that dreams go by contraries!
gpt
Oh, but they come again and again.
human
Then what were they, dearest? They will lose all their terror if you tell me,