Ethne was a Celt, and she had the Celtic feeling that death was not a very important matter.

She could hate, too, and she could be hard as iron to the men she hated.

And these three men she hated exceedingly.
It was true that she had agreed with them, that she had given a feather, the fourth feather, to Harry Feversham just to show that she agreed, but she did not trouble her head about that.

She was very glad to hear that Major Castleton was out of the world and done with.
"And Colonel Trench too ?" she said.
"No," Willoughby answered.

"You are disappointed?
But he is even worse off than that.