As for Earls and their daughters he would no doubt have enough of them in his future life, and this special Earl and his daughters had not fascinated him.

He had chosen to come to Ireland with his regiment for this year instead of at once assuming the magnificence of his position in England, in order that he might indulge the spirit of adventure before he assumed the duties of life.

And it seemed to him that in dining and sleeping at an Irish priest's house on the shores of the Atlantic, with the prospect of seal shooting and seeing a very pretty girl on the following morning, he was indulging that spirit properly.

But Lady Mary Quin thought that he was misbehaving himself and taking to very bad courses.

When she heard that he was to sleep at the priest's house, she was quite sure that he would visit Mrs.O'Hara on the next day.
The dinner at the priest's was very jovial.