Love & Folly
“Colonel Falk tossed the letter he had been reading on the table and walked to the book room window. "Emily and her father have come to cuffs over McGrath." He raised the sash and a draught of balmy air disturbed Johnny's papers.
Johnny laid a book on the stack of letters. "McGrath? Is he drinking again?" McGrath had struck Johnny as a hardened toper. Scarcely the manservant for a genteel household.
Falk leaned against the frame of the window, staring down into the Square. The weather was exceptionally fine. "It seems McGrath and Dassett--that's Sir Henry's coachman--have been testing each other's capacity for Blue Ruin belowstairs every night. Sir Henry wants McGrath's head on a platter." "I daresay you don't like to dismiss McGrath because of his wife." Pegeen McGrath was the children's, nurse.
Falk said coolly, "I don't want to dismiss McGrath because he served me faithfully for thirteen years." "Oh. Was he your bâtman?" "More than that." Falk sounded as if he might, for... once, launch into reminiscence, but he didn't.MoreLess
Johnny laid a book on the stack of letters. "McGrath? Is he drinking again?" McGrath had struck Johnny as a hardened toper. Scarcely the manservant for a genteel household.
Falk leaned against the frame of the window, staring down into the Square. The weather was exceptionally fine. "It seems McGrath and Dassett--that's Sir Henry's coachman--have been testing each other's capacity for Blue Ruin belowstairs every night. Sir Henry wants McGrath's head on a platter." "I daresay you don't like to dismiss McGrath because of his wife." Pegeen McGrath was the children's, nurse.
Falk said coolly, "I don't want to dismiss McGrath because he served me faithfully for thirteen years." "Oh. Was he your bâtman?" "More than that." Falk sounded as if he might, for... once, launch into reminiscence, but he didn't.MoreLess
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