“He could hear the wife?” Betty repeated, not sure what she meant. “That’s right. He could hear her with the dead man.” It took a few seconds for the hideous penny to drop. “You mean they were … she was?” “Ag bualadh craiceann,” * Eilis said, and gave a hideous skull’s grin. Betty felt her stomach turn. There was a line between pleasantly scary and grotesque and upsetting, and Eilis had lightly stepped over it and grinned at her while she did it.
Ew and suddenly it all makes sense what the farmer's wife was up to when Etaine heard their bed squeaking all those years back.
