Otherwise they hardly affected Mr.Conneally's life.

The great officials who visited Carrowkeel to survey the benignant activities of the Congested Districts Board were men whose magnificent intellectual powers raised them above any recognised form of Christianity.

Neither Father Moran's ministrations nor Mr.Conneally's appealed to them.
The London committee of the mission to Roman Catholics made no inquiry about what was going on at Carrowkeel.

They asked for no statistics, expected no results, but signed quarterly cheques for Mr.Conneally, presuming, one may suppose, that if he had ceased to exist they would somehow have heard of it.
By far the most important event for Hyacinth and his father was the death of their old housekeeper.

In the changed state of society in Carrowkeel it was found impossible to secure the services of another.
Hyacinth, at this time about fifteen years old, took to the housework without feeling that he was doing anything strange or unmanly.