"Bother your young woman," she said; "who cares for your young woman! How are you going on in Galway?"
"Sadly enough, to tell the truth."
"No rents?"
He shook his head.
"Nothing but murders and floods?"
"The same damnable old story running on from day to day."
"And have the girls no servants yet?"
"Not a servant; except old Peter, who is not quite as faithful as he should be."
"And,—and what about that valiant gay young gentleman, Captain Clayton?"
"Everything goes amiss in love as well as war," said Frank. "Between the three of them, I hardly know what they want."