"What's more"--O'Neill's eyes brimmed with tears--"they've a cause, Grace." She placed her hand over his. "I know that, Hugh. 'Tis an 'Irish cause,' and we've never known that here before. There's not another man in Ireland--in all the world--who could have rallied them, you know that's true. A single country fighting a single enemy. I never thought I'd live to see the day. Not even Red Hugh could have done it."