Barney Morony wouldn't be quite so quiet if I was not coming back.

I'm to dine with Father Marty at Liscannor on the l5th of January, to meet another priest from Milltown Malbay,--the best fellow in the world he says." "That's Father Creech;--not half such a good fellow, Mr.Neville, as Father Marty himself." "He couldn't be better.

However, I shall be here then, and if I have any luck you shall have another skin of the same size by that time." Then he shook hands with them both, and there was a feeling that the time would be blank till he should be again there in his sailor's jacket.
When the second week in January had come Mrs.O'Hara heard that the gallant young officer of the 20th was back in Ennis, and she well remembered that he had told her of his intention to dine with the priest.

On the Sunday she saw Mr.Marty after mass, and managed to have a few words with him on the road while Kate returned to the cottage alone.

"So your friend Mr.Neville has come back to Ennis," she said.
"I didn't know that he had come.