The Earl when he met the priest would bow to him, and the two clergymen would bow to each other;--but beyond such dumb salutation there was no intercourse between them.

It had been held therefore to be impossible to take any notice of the priest's friends.
And what notice could have been taken of two ladies who came from nobody knew where, to live in that wild out-of-the-way place, nobody knew why?
They called themselves mother and daughter, and they called themselves O'Haras;--but there was no evidence of the truth even of these assertions.

They were left therefore in their solitude, and never saw the face of a friend across their door step except that of Father Marty.
In truth Mrs.O'Hara's life had been of a nature almost to necessitate such solitude.

With her story we have nothing to do here.

For our purpose there is no need that her tale should be told.