id.

So she came in under the covering, and he turned a fold of it between
them. But it was not long till he looked at her, and what he saw was a
beautiful young woman beside him, and she asleep. He called to the
others then to come over, and he said: "Is not this the most beautiful
woman that ever was seen?" "She is that," they said, and they covered
her up and did not awaken her.

But after a while she stirred, and she said: "Are you awake, Diarmuid?"
"I am awake," he said. "Where would you like to see the best house
built that ever was built?" she said. "Up there on the hillside, if I
had my choice," said he, and with that he fell asleep.

And in the morning two men of the Fianna came in, and they said they
were after seeing a great house up on the hill, where there was not a
house before. "Rise up, Diarmuid," said the strange woman then; "do not
be lying there any longer, but go up to your house, and look out now and
see it," she said. So he looked out and he saw the great house that was
ready, and he said: "I will go to it, if you will come along with me."
"I will do that," she said, "if you will make me a promise not to say to
me three times what way I was when I came to you." "I will never say it
to you for ever," said Diarmuid.

They went up then to the house, and it was ready for them, with food and
servants; and everything they could wish for they had it. They stopped
there for three days, and when the three days were ended, she said: "You
are getting to be sorrowful because you are away from your comrades of
the Fianna." "I am not sorrowful indeed," said Diarmuid. "It will be
best for you to go to them; and your food and your drink will be no
worse when you come back than they are now," said she. "Who will take
care of my greyhound bitch and her three pups if I go?" said Diarmuid.
"There is no fear for them," said she.

So when he heard that, he took leave of her and went back to the Fianna,
and there was a great welcome before him. But for all that they were not
well pleased but were someway envious, Diarmuid to have got that grand
house and her love from the woman they themselves had turned away.

Now as to the woman, she was outside the house for a while after
Diarmuid going away, and she saw Finn, son of Cumhal, coming towards
her, and she bade him welcome. "You are vexed with me, Queen?" he said.
"I am not indeed," she said; "and come in now and take a drink of wine
from me." "I will go in if I get