Excitement ran high over the events of the war.

The sympathies of the 'Independent Irelanders,' as they called themselves, fiercely assertive even in their name, were of course entirely with the Boers, and they received every report of an English reverse with unmixed satisfaction.
When Hyacinth entered the room he found four people there.

Mary O'Dwyer herself was making tea at a little table near the fire.

Augusta Goold--the famous Finola--was stretched in a deep chair smoking a cigarette.

She was a remarkable woman both physically and intellectually.