Same day as chapter 5. The girls discuss the song and other things.
Séadna often looks for fear na méarcán, while selling his shoes at the fair, but doesn't find him.
The shoe business really takes off, and Séadna hires other people.
Séadna is very generous to the poor. Anyone who needed anything he would help, except for one apparently wealthy person - no one knows why. Séadna works hard making shoes, and freely lends or gives away his money.
3 years go bye. A rumor starts that Séadna is getting married. Diarmaid thinks maybe it's his daughter Sadhbh he will marry and goes to find out. The people argue about if it is Sadhb or Máire Ghearra or someone else - but Séadna gets angry and says he is not marrying, and never will.