The local men were shy also.

They mostly addressed her as Mrs McKeith.

The police magistrate--Captain Halliwell, lean, dark, sallow, with a rather weak mouth, but more carefully dressed than the others, and with an English voice, called her Lady Bridget.

He was a retired officer of the ROYAL ENGINEERS.

She had been told and now remembered that men in the ROYAL ENGINEERS were popularly said either to be religious or cranks.