Chapter 12
Duv Laca and the King of Leinster went apart then to speak
together, and the eye of the king seemed to be as big as a plate,
so fevered was it and so enlarged and inflamed by the look of Duv
Laca. He was so confounded with joy also that his words got mixed
up with his teeth, and Duv Laca did not know exactly what it was he
was trying to say, and he did not seem to know himself. But at last
he did say something intelligible, and this is what he said.
"I am a very happy man," said he.
"And I," said Duv Laca, "am the happiest woman in the
world."
"Why should you be happy?" the astonished king demanded.
"Listen to me," she said. "If you tried to take me away from
this place against my own wish, one half of the men of Ulster would
be dead before you got me and the other
