“Since I have been in this dun this is the day which I deem longest in it ever,” says Medb.  “This is reasonable,” says Fraech, “they are three days and three nights in it.”  At this Medb starts up.  It was a shame with her that the warriors were without food.  She goes to Ailill:  she tells it to him.  “A great deed we have done,” said she, “the stranger men who have come to us to be without food.”  “Dearer to thee is playing of the chess,” says Ailill.  “It hinders not the distribution to his suite throughout the house.  They have been three days and three nights in it but that we perceived not the night with the white light of the precious stones in the house.”  “Tell them,” says Ailill, “to cease from the lamenting until distribution is made to them.”  Distribution is then made to them, and things were pleasing to them, and they stayed three days and three nights in it after that over the feasting.

It is after that Fraech was called into the house of conversation, and it is asked of him what brought him.  “A visit with you,” said he, “is pleasing to me.”  “Your company is indeed not displeasing with the household,” said Ailill, “your addition is better than your diminution.”

“We shall stay here then,” says Fraech, “another week.”  They stay after that till the end of a fortnight in the dun, and they have a hunt every single day towards the dun.  The men of Connaught used to come to view them.

It was a trouble with Fraech not to have a conversation with the daughter:  for that was the profit that had brought him.  A certain day he starts up at the end of night for washing to the stream.  It is the time she had gone and her maid for washing.  He takes her hand.  “Stay for my conversing,” he says; “it is thou I have come for.”  “I am delighted truly,” says the daughter; “if I were to come, I could do nothing for thee.”  “Query, wouldst thou elope with me?” he says.

“I will not elope,” says she, “for I am the daughter of a king and a queen.  There is nothing of thy poverty that you should not get me (i.e. thy poverty is not so great that thou art not able to get me) from my family; and it shall be my choice accordingly to go to thee, it is thou whom I have loved.  And take thou with thee this ring,” says the daughter, “and it shall be between us for a token.  My mother gave it to me to put by, and I shall say that I put it astray.”  Each of them accordingly goes apart after that.

“I fear,” says Ailill, “the eloping of yon daughter with Fraech, though she would be given to him on solemn pledge that he would come towards us with his cattle for aid at the Spoil.”  Fraech goes to them to the house of conversation.  “Is it a secret (cocur, translated “a whisper” by Crowe) ye have?” says Fraech.  “Thou wouldest fit in it,” says Ailill.