But the bowing line of officers whose backs were towards him effectively barred his progress, and before they had broken up that formation her ladyship and her cavalier were out of sight, lost in the moving crowd.
The marshal laughed good-humouredly.

"The infallible reward of patience," said he.

And O'Moy laughed with him.

But the next moment he was scowling at what he overheard.
"On my soul, that was impudence!" an Irish infantryman had protested.
"Have you ever heard," quoth a heavy dragoon, who was also a heavy jester, "that in heaven the last shall be first?
If you pay court to an angel you must submit to celestial customs." "And bedad," rejoined the infantryman, "as there's no marryin' in heaven ye've got to make the best of it with other men's wives.

Sure it's a great success that fellow should be in paradise.