Never mind her.

You can understand that my uncle should be old-fashioned.

He is very old, and we must wait." "Waiting is so weary," said Mrs.O'Hara.
"It is not weary for me at all," said Kate.
Then he left them, without having said a word about the Captain.

He found the Captain to be a subject very uncomfortable to mention, and thought as he was sitting there that it might perhaps be better to make his first enquiries of this priest.

No one said a word to him about the Captain beyond what he had heard from his boatman.