Three persons do not spend successive seasons in England, Scotland and Ireland unless they are writing an Itinerary of the British Isles.

The situation is possible, certainly, but it isn't simple, or natural, or probable.

We are behaving precisely like characters in fiction, who, having been popular in the first volume, are exploited again and again until their popularity wanes.

We are like the Trotty books or the Elsie Dinmore series.

England was our first volume, Scotland our second, and here we are, if you please, about to live a third volume in Ireland.