Titwing was answerable for all that; he knew nothing about
such matters.
'What I should in the end have done as to leaving Hurstcote or
remaining there I don't know; but after a while something occurred to
remove my difficulties. One morning, when I was giving Mr. D'Arcy a
long sitting for his picture, a Gypsy friend of Sinfi's, belonging to
a family of Lees encamped two or three miles off, called to see her.
It was a man, Sinfi told me, whom I did not know, and he had gone
away without my seeing him.
'In the afternoon, when Sinfi and I were in the punt fishing
together, I could not help noticing that she was much absorbed in
thought.
'"This 'ere fishin' brings back old Wales, don't it?" she said.
'"Yes," I said, "and I should love to see the old places again."
'"You would?" she said; and her excitement was so great that she
dropped her fishing-rod in the river. "Jake Lee has been tellin' me
that our people are there, all camped in the old place by Bettws y
Coed. I told him to write to my daddy--Jake can write--and tell him
that I'm goin' to see him.
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