"Has she a lover who visits the house?"
"O, yes; and he's been coming there for two years."
"Why don't he marry her and take her away?"
"My wife wouldn't part with her—will keep her as long as she lives, if she can. She thinks she's the best servant she ever saw. We should suspect her least of all. She has lost nearly every keepsake her lover has given her, and some very valuable things which her mother gave her on leaving Ireland, and the poor girl has nearly cried her eyes out over her loss."
"Well, her lover, what sort of a man is he?"
"A hard working mechanic; works at the Novelty Works, and bears an excellent name."
"Is he Irish, too? I suppose he is."
"No; he is an Englishman—a Yorkshire man, I think."
"Is he Protestant or Catholic?"
"Protestant to be sure. She's Catholic, though."