There was indeed a curse on it for the Kingsnorths.

He straightened out the crumpled piece of paper and read on]:--a man named O'Connell--the man she nursed in your house in Ireland after he had been shot by the soldiers.

He was coming to England and wished to see her.

She asked my permission.

I reasoned with her--but she was decided.
If I should not permit her to see him in my house she would meet him elsewhere.