tucked away under a thwart
and heaved it with a great effort into her husband's arms. He staggered
under the weight of it. Joseph Antony Kinsella's instinctive politeness
asserted itself.

"Will you let me take that from you?" he said. "The like of them parcels
isn't fit for your reverence to carry."

Lady Isabel got the rest of her luggage out of the _Tortoise_. Then she
and Mr. Pennefather went to Jimmy Kinsella's boat and unloaded it. They
had a good deal of luggage altogether. When everything was stacked on
the beach Mrs. Kinsella, with her baby in her arms, came down and looked
at the pile with amazement. Three small, bare-legged Kinsellas, young
brothers of Jimmy's, followed her. She turned to Priscilla.

"Maybe now," she said, "them ones is after being evicted? Tell me this,
was it out of shops or off the land that they did be getting their
living before the trouble came on them?"

"Arrah, whist, woman," said Joseph Antony, "have you no eyes in your
head. Can't you see that the gentleman's a clergyman?"

"Glory be to God!" said Mrs. Kinsella, "and to think now that they'd
evict the like of him!"

Lady Isabel held out her hand to Priscilla.

"Goodbye," she said, "and thank you so much for all you've done. If you
see my mother----"

"We'll see her tonight," said Priscilla. "I shan't be let in to dinner,
but I'll see her afterwards when Aunt Juliet is smoking in the hope of
shocking your father."

"Don't tell her we're here," said Lady Isabel.

"Come along, Frank," said Priscilla. "I'll help you out of that boat and
into the _Tortoise_. We must be getting home. Goodbye, Miss Rutherford."

"It really is goodbye this time," said Miss Rutherford. "I'm off
tomorrow morning."

"Back to London?" said Frank. "Hard luck."

"To that frowsy old Museum," said Priscilla, "full of skeletons of
whales and stuffed antelopes and things."

"I feel it all acutely," said Miss Rutherford. "Don't make it worse for
me by enumerating my miseries."

"And I don't believe you've caught a single sponge," said Priscilla.
"Will they be frightfully angry with you?"

"I've got a few," said Miss Rutherford, "fresh water ones that I caught
before I met you. I'll make the most of them."

"Anyhow," said Priscilla, "it'll be a great comfort to you to feel that
you've taken part in a noble deed of mercy before you left."

"That's something, of course," said Miss Rutherford, "but you can't
think how annoying it is to have to go a