"Oh, well, I'm leaving here now," he told her. "They're forcing me to sell up."

"And I'm not surprised," she replied. "It's that dirty old devil again, he who haunts Summerhouses and always has. And always will. Kolumkilli has rarely allowed anyone who lived in this croft to escape scot-free. I say for my part that I have never made this place my home. I have been nothing more than a lodger for the night."

- conversation between Bjartur and Hallbera