“Was I telling you,” he said, “about the gentleman, and the lady along with him that came in on the train today?”
“You were not.”
“Well, he came, and I’m thinking that he’s a high-up man.”
“What about him?”
“The sergeant was sent for up to the big house,” said Peter Walsh, “soon after the strange gentleman came. I don’t know rightly what they wanted with him. Sweeny was asking Constable Maloney after; but sure the boy knew no more than I did myself.”
“It’s a curious thing,” said Kinsella, “so it is, damned curious.”
“Damned,” said Peter Walsh.
“I wouldn’t be sorry if the whole lot of them was drownded one of these days.”
“I wouldn’t like anything would happen to the young lady.”
“Is it Priscilla? I wasn’t meaning her. But any way, Peter Walsh, you know well the sea wouldn’t drown that one.”