When he returned to the hall with Smilash they found two mugs of beer waiting for them.

The girls had retired, and only Miss Wilson and the housekeeper remained.
"Here's your health, mum," said the man, before drinking; "and may you find such another as yourself to help you when you're in trouble, which Lord send may never come!" "Is your house quite destroyed ?" said Miss Wilson.

"Where will you spend the night ?" "Don't you think of me, mum.

Master Smilash here will kindly put me up 'til morning." "His health!" said Smilash, touching the mug with his lips.
"The roof and south wall is browed right away," continued the man, after pausing for a moment to puzzle over Smilash's meaning.

"I doubt if there's a stone of it standing by this." "But Sir John will build it for you again.