CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE JUDGMENT OF GOD I walked into the dining-room and found Uncle Luke at breakfast, with Lord and Lady St.Leger on each side of him, eating little themselves, but pressing one thing after another on him.
I felt a sense of a new alertness about the house.

Although the old servants were faithful they had grown a little slipshod in their ways, seeing that it mattered little to their employers.

Now things had suddenly assumed a swept and garnished air.

One felt that the master had come home.
They all looked up at me with some expectation when I came in.
"Where have you been so early, Bawn ?" my grandmother asked, while Uncle Luke came and set a chair for me and stood smiling at me; I was glad that in those waste places of the earth he had not forgotten those fine debonair ways which of old had made the women fall in love with him.
"I have been to Castle Clody," I answered.
"I thought as much.

Why did not Mary come back with you?
Was she transported at the good news ?" "She thought perhaps that Uncle Luke would----" I paused for words.