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Updated: May 12, 2025
He ordered hot whisky and water, mutton chops, dry clothes for Miss Purcell, fires, tea, buttered toast, poached eggs and other delicacies simultaneously and immediately, and the voice of Mary Ann Whooly imploring Heaven's help for herself and its vengeance upon her inadequate assistants was heard far in the streets of Drinagh. Faith, they'll do ye grand! Arrah, why not, asthore!
Lady Purcell dutifully disinterred her attention from a catalogue of Dutch bulbs. "When I get in to-morrow I'll go call on that Local Government Board Inspector who's staying in Drinagh. They tell me he's a very nice fellow and he's rolling in money. I daresay I'll ask him to dinner. He was in the army one time, I believe. They often give these jobs to soldiers.
"You know, Nora," said Muriel with an unusually conciliatory manner, "it isn't at all out of our way, and the colt ought to get a proper rub down and a hot drink." "I should have thought he'd had about as much to drink as he wanted, hot or cold!" said Nora. But Nora had not been a younger sister for fifteen years for nothing, and it was for Drinagh that the party steered their course.
"Baby's always bothering to come out hunting," remarked an elder sister, "and you know yourself, mamma, that the last time she came was when she stole the postman's pony, and he had to run all the way to Drinagh, and you said yourself she was to be kept in the next day for a punishment." "How ready you are with your punishments!
Lady Purcell was not wont to take the initiative, still less one of her husband's horses, without his approval; but the thought of the saturated side-saddle lent her decision, and as soon as a horse and trap could be got ready she set forth for Drinagh.
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