He delighted Miss Goold by his extreme eagerness to be off.
'I don't see,' he said, 'why we shouldn't start to-morrow.' 'I'm afraid that's out of the question,' said Augusta Goold.

'M.

de Villeneuve arranged to send me a wire when he was ready for our men, and I can't well send them sooner.' 'Ah,' said the Captain, 'but it seems to me the Frenchman is inclined to dawdle.

Don't you think that if we went over it might hurry him up a bit ?' She agreed that this was possible, but represented the difficulty of keeping the men suitably employed in Paris for perhaps three weeks or a month.
'You see,' she said, 'they are all right here in Dublin, where I can keep an eye on them.

Besides, they have all got some sort of employment here, and I don't have to pay them.